Word: owl
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...probably preserved two redwood groves in Humboldt County, one of them the celebrated 3,000-acre Headwaters tract, a spectacular forest of towering, ancient redwoods--the largest still in private hands. And they knew for certain that they had sacrificed four smaller groves, rich with endangered wildlife. Activists at Owl Creek, one of the doomed groves, climbed the big trees and spread banners: DON'T RAPE THE REDWOODS...
...menu of Loker's "bohemian-style coffeehouse." She had come downstairs to meet her daughter for lunch. With her appearance, an underground furtiveness crept into the air as lunch companions quickly hushed and murmured; eyes darted and honed in; people strained to look casual and turn their necks, owl-like, 180 degrees. A collective concentration fixed in on Hillary, as she stood there painfully aware of her own aura in an airy pale purple suit. She must not have been very pleased with the luncheon options, judging by the frown on her face--and I must say that I agreed...
...think the basic things that lose out are the extra opportunities that I could take advantage of," said Lawless, who hails from Owl's Head, a rural hamlet of 200 in upstate New York...
Rucker, Felber, Bryan and Sonefeld met in 1986 as undergraduates at the University of South Carolina at Columbia--the band's name came from nicknames given to two university classmates, one with owl-like glasses and another with full cheeks. Making the cultural transition from the North to the South was a difficult one for the group's three Yankees. At the university at that time, band members recall, whites would sometimes be kicked out of frats for having too many black friends. Hootie & the Blowfish's very first gig was held at an off-campus fraternity with a reputation...
...People have no idea how fraudulent people who claim to be scholars can be," says Johnson. Stocky, graying, slightly owl-like, he teaches New Testament at Atlanta's Emory. Like Crossan, Johnson took priestly orders as a young man but gave up the collar in order to marry. But Johnson never broke with the church, and as time went on, he became progressively more alarmed at the work of his fellow scholars...