Word: lowland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...storm battered the sprawling lowland farming area and dumped a deluge of water which threatened floods on a dozen rivers. Flash floods were expected on smaller streams...
...libretto tells of a simple shepherd who descends from the Pyrenees into the worldly "Tiefland" (the Lowland) to marry his master's doxy. When he mistakenly suspects that his bride's inclination is still to the manor bed, he at first considers stabbing her, later hits on the happier solution of strangling the landowner and loping back to the hills with his wife in his arms. This tale is set to an expansive, thickly melodic score which rarely bears any relation to the frenzies on stage but occasionally strikes some fine Straussian and Puccinian sparks. Recorded...
...gallantly, although unsuccessfully, for Parliament on a platform of. roughly, "Remember Bannockburn." More or less in the spirit of things, he published, while lecturing at Aberdeen University, something called The Aidd Aberdeen Courant and Neo-Caledonian Spasmodical. But his most bravely brandished weapon is Lallans, a braw dialect of lowland Scots, little known today to Scots who are not classicists, or at least poets...
...died, Ma was left with two small children to support, and she took a job playing piano in a café. For ten long years she pounded the keys and squeezed the centimes until she had enough money to get a farm-and then bought a plot of lowland that the sea invaded every summer, carrying off the harvest before it could be gathered. Indomitable, Ma built a wall of mangrove logs to keep the sea away, but a storm came and broke the wall in a single night, and broke Ma too. She kept on talking of the things...
After digging for several months, Dr. Howell figured out why the ancient lake was so popular with ancient man. About 10,000 years ago, he thinks, Tanganyika had a capricious climate. During rainy periods, the lowland plains and valleys were good places to live. Animals preferred them to the hills, and ancient human hunters stayed near the animals. The upland lake was deep during rainy periods, and its bottom collected a layer of clay, but it had no attraction...