Word: pearli
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shining in an azure sky, mockingbirds are chirping in the snow-white blossoms of the pear trees, and the bees are buzzing from one glorious daffodil to another. It is early March, the middle of Lent, and Catholics all over the world are immersed in contemplation and penance over the passion and suffering of Christ. But just outside the chapel where David Burton is teaching a class for new Catholic initiates, on the green grounds of the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Nashville, Tennessee, the season seems intent on fast-forwarding beyond late winter and penance right into renewal...
...really who in Bronson's book? At the heart of the new machine is a revolutionary computer language called the "hypnotizer," the brainchild of an archetypal "pear-shaped" geek named Tiny Curtis Reese. He bears an uncanny resemblance to James Gosling, the pear-shaped Sun Microsystems programmer who created Java, the computer lingua franca of the Internet...
...service will be attended by Breistroff's parents and followed by the dedication of a pear tree in his honor in the Mather courtyard. There will be a reception in the master's residence after the ceremony...
...most poignant casualties of the 1996 drought have been the cattle, grazing on blighted fields of stubble. Feed prices have, in some instances, tripled, while prices for cattle have been plummeting. Trying to stave off the inevitable, ranchers south of San Antonio have been hiring day laborers to "burn pear," Texas lingo for applying a butane torch to the cactus and searing off the spines so that cattle can munch on what remains. But many ranchers across the affected regions have given up, offering at auction the creatures they can no longer afford to feed...
...spent the next summer in Vancouver as well, having stayed dry for the whole school year. After imbibing liters (it's Canada, come on) of various fermented fluids, I finally got buzzed. Not by the sweet-tasting peach, plum, cherry or pear ciders that were so easy to chug down but still packed an eight percent punch, no. It was on my last afternoon in the lab, when we adjourned for beers. Four beers in less than half an hour was all it took to make me a little wobbly (hardly out of control, though) on the stairs...