Word: picnics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ambitious plans for removing citizens from 380 high-risk areas, including cities with more than 50,000 people and areas near military bases. In Plattsburgh, N.Y., a booklet prepared with FEMA'S help advises residents to have on hand, packed and ready to go, like a giant doomsday picnic basket, some 55 items, including large supplies of tinned foods, blankets, axes, flashlights and a portable toilet. As one local skeptic noted: "We'll all need U-Hauls to take that junk along with our families...
...call war futile, the kind of thing that brown rats do to each other in a locked room. Seeing its horrors, we conceive of it as history gone mad, the reptilian brain taking over, the savage part of us wading through gore wearing ivory-handled pistols: war as a picnic of cannibals. The Icelandic author Halldor Laxness found the murderous fascination of war in the Old Norse texts of Scaldic poetry, the hymns of the "kill spree." The poets were particular about the best light and color for battle: "The hour before daybreak is all right because it lends...
SOFTBALL--There is nothing soft about a ball when it's travelling at 40 m.p.h. The Harvard softball team may be the most spirited group on campus and perhaps the most practical since someday they'll impress their colleagues at the company picnic...
...prisoner. "For once in his life, he had found himself in a situations where his privileged position was worthless. He had been forced, willy-nilly, to become a common man. "While Jock's escape from the Germans was courageous. Jock seemed to view the experience more as a picnic outing than a "sobering ordeal." He worried that the Germans had crushed the ripe pears that he was carrying. Though he spends much of his service playing cards with generals, he is surprised that his fellow prisoners view war as a chore, rather than a "sacred crusade...
...Arden, Texas, that whole stretches of his range are innocent of mesquite. The land gives an impression of splendid cleanliness. A creek flows not far from the ranch house-a sweet luxury in a dry country. Cargile and his wife Ta will take a guest there for a picnic on a moonlit evening, and there is something almost profligate in the sound of the water flowing at one's feet. In this part of the world, a pastoral scene is difficult and expensive to create...