Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thousands of miles across that make up the earth's surface -- are grinding past each other. As the plate carrying Los Angeles heads north toward Alaska, it scrapes against the plate carrying most of the rest of the U.S., sticking for years and then suddenly spurting forward. Near Palm Springs, the San Andreas Fault makes a jog to the west, suggesting that it may be trying to take a shortcut along a new line of least resistance and that eventually the section near Los Angeles may quiet down. That's the good news. Unfortunately, it's not likely to happen...
...pastures surrounding the ponds and marshes of the Pantanal, herds of capybaras, the world's largest rodents, munch on the native grasses. Hyacinth macaws, the world's largest parrots, nest in trees and crack palm seeds disgorged by cattle, which eat the fruit around the nut. According to Charles Munn, an ornithologist with Wildlife Conservation International, the cattle fill a niche formerly occupied by extinct giant sloths, which dined on palm seeds thousands of years before the first Portuguese settlers arrived. This happy coincidence is one reason why humans here get along with the 80 species of mammals, 230 kinds...
Rudenstine has already started campaigning hardamong alumni. His travel intinerary for the yearreads like a frequent flyer's dream: New York,Washington D.C., Miami, Palm Beach, Sarasota,Chicago, Philadelphia, Seattle, San Francisco andLos Angeles...
...cigar's lineage goes all the way back to Christopher Columbus, whose sailors took a liking to West Indian tobacco, rolled into palm or maize leaf, which they then took back home. Spanish nobles picked up the habit, and merchants spread it to the rest of Europe. By some accounts, Spain took more wealth out of the New World in tobacco than in gold and silver. In the American colonies, the cigar became a symbol of winner-take-all capitalism and flinty frontier grit...
...story is remarkable. From a French-sounding "Those Canaan days, we used to know, where have ze gone, where did ze go." to the rhythmic calypso of "Oh no, not he, how you cahn acuze heem eez a meestarie, save him, take me, Benjaameen is straighter than the tall palm tree"--the music thrills. There are even flavors of Elvis and country music in some of these numbers...