Word: mud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...window on majestic nature that is often inaccessible by other means. That's not Busch Gardens out there in the Alaskan outback, nor are you riding past the robotic ape at a theme park. Those are real moose in rut careening toward the train, real bears, mountains and mud slides on the other side of the window. Elsewhere, American rails wander beside breathtaking canyons, mountain ranges and waterfalls. So, wherever you're headed, climb aboard this summer. The experience will help put you back on track...
Does the cocktail hour need any more womanizing bartenders like Sam Malone or grouchy waitresses like Carla Tortelli? Well, here's mud in your eye. The TV series Cheers, based on a cozy Boston bar, has inspired a chain of taverns that will be installed in airports and Marriott Hotels across the U.S. The hotel company's catering division and Paramount Pictures Television have struck a deal to open 46 bars modeled after the show's. The Cheers bars will be outfitted to remind patrons of the TV tavern, with dark paneling and Tiffany lamps. Customers will be able...
...blocked by prudence and the Secret Service, is rueful and funny. He successfully conveys his secret to the reader: why First Ladies' portraits look that way -- why Abigail Powers Fillmore, for instance, "looks like she has just been induced, for the good of the nation, to eat a dozen mud pies...
...playground. Khi Ha Won's parents live in a Thai refugee camp, but he kept nagging to join the soldiers. Eventually they let him. The last time he was rotated forward, he could plainly see two Burmese soldiers on the other side of the minefield reinforcing their bunkers with mud and wood. He lifted his carbine to shoot but was sharply ordered to hold his fire. He still seems incredulous about that; the hardest lesson for the children to accept is that ammunition has to be saved...
...England Championships last weekend, the Harvard men's rugby team got caught in the mud while the women's team was just plain overpowered...