Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enter or leave the kibbutz without the approval of an armed Israeli brigade. While jogging down a nearby mountain this afternoon, I had to stop to let pass several combat tanks, filled with Israeli men of my age who waved and pretended to shoot me with their guns. They seemed much too young...
Coles has also published works on the children of migrant workers, Appalachian mountain families and sharecroppers. His recent works include "Eskimos, Chicanos and Indians" and "Privileged Ones: The Well-Off and the Rich in America...
...began promoting a boycott of all Nestle products, demanding that the dorporation discontinue promotion of its infant formula products. The boycott continues todau, and includes such products as Nestle's Quik, Nescafe, Nestle's Crunch, Nestea, Tasters' Choice, all Libby's products, all Stouffer's products, Wispride. Dee Park Mountain Spring Water and others. Harvard dining halls continue to serve Nestle's hot chocolate. Next time you go for a cup, think about...
...armored as the dragon," Steinberg points out. "It has the impenetrable armor of fat fluff. It is invincibly sweet. There are, you see, two sorts of danger. One is being hit by a giant boulder: the direct assault of the world. The other is being overcome by a mountain of fluff, or molasses. The softness is as dreadful as the hardness...
...Even those who have never left sea level will enjoy the au thor's lofty musings. Jerome points out that a range like the Himalayas is still growing (Everest may be more than a foot harder to climb in a hundred years than it is today) and explains mountain weather with a clarity some science writers would do well to emylate. He speaks knowledgeably of avalanches, snow and the life that lives on mountains - from lemmings and insects to the snowmen, abominable and otherwise, who find everything from adventure to a quiet home in the stratosphere...