Word: igloos
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While hunting butterflies one afternoon, Dubkin explored a dense clump of trees near an outlying factory. One tree was so loaded with vines that it looked like a green igloo. He climbed to the top and fell through with a crash. The mound was hollow and dark inside, and full of squeaking bats. A great peace of soul descended over Dubkin; he had found a tribe of gay little friends, and he had also found a much-needed refuge from his widowed, too-possessive mother...
...addition, the Chronicle states, the Graduate Center student will spend his days in an ivory-towered igloo of stone and glass rather than in the reality of Cambridge life...
Texas. In Houston, where two wealthy householders have already built bomb shelters, a contractor sent out 7,500 brochures advertising a $2,000, igloo-shaped shelter that can house ten people. A Teaneck, N.J. concrete company advertised that bomb shelters "won't be a total loss even if there are no atomic-bomb explosions, because they can be used as wine cellars or utility rooms...
...custom of rummaging through his hosts' baggage somebody rapped him sharply across the knuckles. Then somebody else offered him whisky, a drink that made him miserably hot, so he decided that white men were an unfriendly lot at best. Turning his back on the explorers, he built an igloo nearby and settled down with his family for a sleep-only to be awakened shortly afterward by an uninvited anthropologist. While the "lemming-faced" white intruder busily sketched everything in sight, hospitable Ernenek brought out his choicest delicacy, "a thoroughly chewed hodgepodge of caribou eyes, ptarmigan dung, auk slime...
...Books" program of Stringfellow Barr, former president of Maryland's St. John's College, there was a permanent panel. It was abandoned, says Crothers, because after a few months "everyone had explored everyone else's mind - it was as if they had been closeted in an igloo...