Word: lumber
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good part of the work was done on a pro bono basis. Plumbers, electricians and carpenters volunteered to work on the project. Companies donated rugs, furniture, lumber, a fire alarm system...a developer donated $10,000 cash," Lee said. "People worked until two or three in the morning to help us get the building ready for the winter. A construction company even put 15 workers...
Under the guns, Rangoon is returning to normal, at least on the surface. Stores are open, tea shops are busy, and hopelessly overcrowded buses lumber unsteadily through the streets. But the mood is sullen. "We are like a dormant volcano: calm on the outside, boiling inside," says a government worker. A group of monks has circulated a leaflet calling for a peaceful protest this week unless the generals set up an interim civilian government, and there were reports that some monks had been arrested. A 9-p.m.-to-4-a.m. curfew is strictly enforced. Prices have risen...
...could starve and fornicate, expose their young for dogs and crows, worship the bones of animals or the brown liquor in a jar. I would have none of it." Nanapush survives, largely because it seems he has been charged by the author to be around in 1924, when a lumber company starts dropping the trees in whose branches his ancestors once stored their dead...
...title: Night of the Living Feelies. Here's this really bewitching post-new wave band, living and working out of Haledon, N.J. (pop. 6,888). The notion is that, in the movie, all the residents of a small town not unlike Haledon are red-eyed, ash-faced zombies who lumber into a Feelies concert looking for a midnight snack. The undead are, of course, finally rejuvenated, but not by their customary infusions. The raucous restorative powers of the Feelies is what brings them back to life...
...neck, white-sock county, dogs in the back of pickups, everyone wants to carry a gun," says a longtime political observer. The county seat of Prineville (pop. 5,250) is a "detour down a back road," to lift a line from a country ballad popular there. Lumber trucks and pickups rumble through the town's four traffic lights, which feel the strain of traffic only during hunting season. The lone presidential candidate to visit the county was John Kennedy, in 1960. Such splendid isolation breeds self- sufficiency and a pervasive distrust of government. "We don't expect a lot," says...