Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rocky Mountain oysters are a delicacy in Montana. They are, of course, the business part of the bull, and they are served breaded and deep fried, like chicken fingers, though they are not yet available in any Happy Meal deal. Each year for 15 years, Lincoln has sold more of them than the year before. It was two tons' worth last year at the 15th annual festival, which drew a record 15,000 people over five days without any arrests...
...ideas and go and get books out of the library, books on how to build a place because it'd be cheaper that way. They paid off all their bills too, and when Opie fell in love with seven quiet acres several years ago on the shoulder of Sand Mountain, they bought the property...
...methodical of intuitive writers, or the most intuitive of methodicals. Intuition tells him to bang a gong from time to time, and he does: "The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone." Full stop. Paragraph break. While this astonishment reverberates, he goes on methodically to discuss orogeny, which is mountain building (benthic refers to the ocean bottom). He was an English major who had written about gold mining in Alaska without, as he admits, knowing how the gold got there to be mined. Neither did the miners. But he pestered geologists for an explanation, and had the good luck...
...engaging, Augustin must fight the leopard for water, food and freedom to move, all of which the leopard jealously guards, though it otherwise remains far more docile and generous than Augustin has any reason to expect. When the soldier discovers a gigantic facade of columns and stairs within the mountain (an identical twin to the Grail-house in Indiana Jones and the last Crusade), we expect the film's early fascination with archaeology to return; Augustin, however, only has eyes for the cat, all the more beautiful and fascinating to him for not being man-made...
...will pay for everyone to be relocated. "First of all, each person was to get 10,000 renminbi ($1,250) each. Now the local officials are saying it will be just 7,000 renminbi. They will try to keep the rest." The new land is on top of a mountain, so it will not be nearly so good for farming as the rich alluvial soil they till now by the river's edge. "Everyone here is angry," he says...