Word: meadow
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...vantage point was from the land side, a rise in an enormous rolling meadow beside a tennis court fenced in wood and mesh. I did not try to move closer to see in detail what was in the light of the lodge windows, all ablaze everywhere, as if great crowds were inside. I knew there were no crowds. The wind amplified in gusts the strains of a dance band. When the song was over, it began again. It was a Victrola record of a tune I recognized, Exactly Like...
...corners. Such a fortress wrests envy, respect and despair, as it is intended to, from all New Hampshire males and a good many homesteading females who have not yet bucked, split and stacked their own supply of wood for the winter. In my town, for instance, there is a meadow in which stand, drying nobly, seven two-cord stacks of firewood. Clearly the fabricator of these splendid piles will be warm not only through the winter ahead, which all agree will be unusually cold, but even through the dark and dread winter of the year after next...
...years old. His reason for stacking the wood in his meadow, he says, is that he has stacked so much wood in his barn already that there isn't room for more. His real reason is to set an example for the rest of us, as an elder of the tribe should do. I am inclined to believe that his tribe will persist, despite the caterpillars that now beset...
From the days of Columbus, most of the islands have been ravaged by colonial strife. Since World War II, many have been despoiled by commercial neocolonialists, with their genius for blanketing beach and meadow with concrete and neon. Few travelers in search of tranquillity and an authentic native culture would risk their dollars or digestions today on such tourist emporiums as San Juan and St. Maarten. The American Virgins have mostly been deflowered by developers; St. Croix has seen mindless racial killing. Trinidad and Jamaica, Barbados and the Bahamas have become tourist traps. Cuba and, to some extent, Haiti have...
...inspiring, spiritually refreshing. Yea, right. About as exciting as Donny and Marie smiling as they give a tenth of their fortunes to the Salt Lake City hierarchy. The Mormons are the original cultists, a century before Moon hit town. Some guy in New York meets two angels in a meadow and leads thousands of submissive followers across the continent to eat locusts and practice bigamy in the deserts of Utah. Not everyone...