Word: line
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kept for about three years, 1984-87, chasing a quarry that was "shy here, coy there, blatant elsewhere." His father, another petroleum geologist, complained after reading Oil Notes that he didn't learn much from it about finding oil, but to the uninitiated it richly reveals just what that line of work involves. There is no better conversation, spoken or written, than good shop talk, and this is superb -- direct, expert and reeling with the joys of outdoor adventure...
Most major suitmakers are in the covered-up swim. Designers Adrienne Vittadini and Randolph Duke are among those who have swirled out skirted suits, while Norma Kamali recalls the 1940s with long-line swimwear featuring elegant drapery. Former Hollywood star Esther Williams has lent her name to a line of classic one-piece suits reminiscent of her costumes in films like Neptune's Daughter. Using a bit of verbal camouflage, Body Glove Apparel, a California outfit, says its line is "cut for the Midwestern frame," and Sandcastle is doing well with a collection intended to "minimize common figure problems like...
...bean against me. Voters attempting to read out statements were taken aside by Union staff and instructed to ignore it on the grounds that we were a small group of cranks and anti-union activists. Voters were verbally instructed to vote for the contract even as they stood in line at the ballot boxes. There was not the least chance for any fair discussion of the issues. One voter, examining our statement, summarized the essence of the situation: "This is the first time anyone has told me I could vote...
...wild walking grew more wonderful). The donkeys advanced along the trail like a party of schoolgirls in dove-gray uniforms, sociable and disorderly, the sheer din of their progress driving off elephants and lions and all other wilder beasts as Toad's parade advanced. Toad surveyed the line of march with a jump of pleasure. En passant with his olive-wood walking stick, he poked cannonballs of elephant dung and judged how long ago the beasts had passed. Now and then they came upon Samburu tending herds of high-humped Boran cattle. But mostly they walked in solitude. Toad savored...
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge did not fight over drinking water as they rambled through the Lake District. In any case, the important thing to Toad was that walking put the mind in motion, and might even set poetry in motion. A line of verse is a march of poetic feet, the trudge of iambs and shuffle of dactyls, the ambulations of language...