Word: picnics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...traveling companion and I found ourselves parked at the side of the road, approximately 93 miles south of Sverdlovsk-45, sharing a picnic lunch with a Russian scientist and two former military officers. Ignoring the freezing wind, we ate brown bread heaped with butter and red caviar. We drank tea from a thermos that had given up its heat hours ago, and stamped our feet in the snow as we discussed the import of a meeting held two hours earlier...
...Department's fancy talk about "Rights" is ill-spent indignation. We Singaporeans understand that it is the law-abiding citizens whose rights should come first. And our infinitely wise government has preserved these rights successfully. How? By meting out the occasional harsh punishment to criminals. Sure caning is no picnic, but every would-be criminal in our country knows that the consequences of being caught surely outweigh the momentary pleasure he might derive from his crime...
...night before the happy day was no picnic, however...
...They came to the Summer School registration and invited students to a University picnic," she said. "They pretended to have an association with Harvard that doesn't exist...
...envisions adapting as a perky Broadway musical. Arthur Miller, after all, came from the neighborhood, and the boy's parents seem crazier than Miller's Lomans. What better escape for both households than song and dance? If neither as funny nor as painful as it could be, this Picnic is still a satisfying meal. -- W.A.H...