Word: rains
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Democrats planned to head back to Austin at midnight on Thursday, the deadline for a preliminary vote on house bills. But a tornado warning scrambled their plans, and they boarded two luxury buses (smoking and non) at 10:40 p.m. As the buses fought fierce winds and rain, the Democrats watched Gladiator (nonsmoking bus) and The Fugitive (smoking bus). After arriving in Austin at 4 a.m., they scrubbed up for a 7 a.m. rally and showed up at their jobs at 9. Though they were met with some boos from the gallery and a lot of female Republicans dressed...
There's nothing like rounding the corner of a Himalayan trail in the rain and finding your cook making a hot meal. Unless your cook is Sikkimese. Our cook-he never offered a name-made good tea and noodle soup. But the rest of his food was an appalling improvisation-exemplified by his signature deep-fried cheese-and-tomato-and-peanut-butter-and-jam sandwich...
...immediate sensation, first as an allegory representing our yearning for a more peaceful, simpler time and then as a symbol of our own gullibility. In 1971, as a terrible war dragged on in Southeast Asia, a Stone Age tribe was discovered living in total seclusion in the Philippine rain forest. The Tasaday were gentle folk whose language lacked even a word for war. They dressed in loincloths and skirts made of orchid leaves, slept in picturesque caves and lived off the land on a diet consisting of fruit, fish and insects. NBC Evening News broke the story; then a piece...
...Robin Hemley, in his book Invented Eden, asks if someone did just that. In 1986, a Swiss reporter named Oswald Iten returned to the rain forest and found the Tasaday wearing Levi's jeans and T shirts. They said that they were local farmers who had been coerced previously into playing cavemen. A few weeks later, a team from Der Stern arrived, led by the Tasaday's original discoverer, and found them once again wearing leaves. That, supposedly, proved they were fake. Comparisons were drawn with Piltdown Man, the great paleoanthropological hoax of the early 20th century...
According to the prosecutor’s account, Colono, who was sitting in a car with his cousin and a woman, commented on Pring-Wilson, pointing out “that guy staggering” up the street in flip-flops and a yellow rain slicker...