Word: ruggedized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week, lineup officials in Arizona said 94 miles there would go unlinked because they were too rugged or too far from emergency medical services. Organizers had admitted privately that New Mexico and Texas likely will have large gaps.
Rule Two is eating the right food. Generally, a good combination is granola and beer. This combines rugged "Grape Nuts" individuality with a puerile twist; just the off-balance pose the Allnightist should strike. This breaks Rule One, but then the Allnightist is a rule breakin' kind of guy.
All kinds of students--from die-hard preppies to rugged mountain climbers, and from the merely curious to the nomadic--have made the three-hour trip north from Boston. Many choose the wee hours of the morning for the scenic drive and find Bean's open and doing business 24...
At the Harraseeket Inn, a lodging just down the street from Bean's, acting manager Penny Gray describes it differently. "They buy a tent, but what they really buy is a [rugged] state of mind."
But these features hide the equally Texan and equally historically important characteristics which lie below the bluster and Hollywood romance that make this novel entertaining. Texans were the violent Comanche and Mexican killers that Michener made his out to be. But most of the time (in between the occassional Indian...