Word: oak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Even at Annenberg with those big oak tables,he would get up and take three people's trays,"Bowen said...
When the Ingalls family decided to leave Pepin for the West, they hastened to cross the Mississippi while it was frozen. Today's travelers can cross by bridge in any season and, heading southwest, end up 100 miles later in Burr Oak, Iowa--forward in time to 1876, when Laura was nine and her family arrived there to help run the Masters Hotel. Laura's account of their sojourn in Burr Oak has never been published, and true fans will not want to miss it. The hotel is the only one of Laura's girlhood homes that remains...
Visitors to Oxford and residents alike enjoy trips to Faulkner's 1840 Greek Revival home, Rowan Oak. Other attractions include the university's collection of Greek and Roman antiquities, one of the nation's finest, and its world-class jazz-blues archive. Another college-town perk: attending Southeastern Conference football and basketball games...
After five years as a construction site manager at Samsung, Chung Hwan Oak was more used to giving orders than taking them. So making sales calls for his new catering business turned out to be particularly hard on his pride. After bowing deeply, Chung, 49, would pitch his hot-pot lunches -- steaming vegetables seasoned with shrimps and fiery pepper sauce -- then explain how he'd lost his job at the giant conglomerate. Often people just slammed the door in his face. Those who listened didn't offer him a chair. The frosty treatment stung, but Chung knew what was behind...
...complex's wood floors and veneer were harvested from sustainable forests. Not a single California live oak was cut down during construction, and a stand of the ancient trees rises in a dark elegance just beyond a piazza. Huge atriums carry daylight deep into the building, paints and adhesives are low toxicity, the place is 30% more energy efficient than state law requires...