Word: rusticating
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...model of sustainability, and its owner Richard Forbes a man on a mission as he illuminated the secrets behind the syrup. Followed closely by the women of Harvard science, Forbes explained the intricate assembly of taps and tubes that drain the sweet sap from the trees. Back in the rustic wooden shed that doubled as a gift shop, he demonstrated the hydraulic system that slowly boils 40 gallons of sap down to one gallon of delicious maple syrup...
...years he lived off alms, often sleeping in graveyards and caves. He also published his first poems, which he has since likened to "tufts of grass among the ruins" of the fratricidal war - a typically earthy metaphor for a poet derided by his detractors as artless and quaintly rustic. The landscapes in his poems are undeniably folksy. Villagers get drunk on bootleg makgeolli - the milky, fizzy rice wine making a comeback in South Korea these days, thanks in part to a national grain surplus. Surprised burglars are spotlit by incandescent moons. Young lovers do amorous things in barley fields while...
Killing time at a rustic farm house the night before the operation, the army agents were suddenly attacked by mosquitoes. The guerrillas believed the helicopters were flying directly from Bogota to the pickup point. If the agents showed up with their faces pocked with insect bites, their entire story might unravel. So they spent a sleepless night chain-smoking cigarettes and shooing away the bugs...
...concept for the two-year-old retreat came to South African and Shanghai expat Grant Horsfield who, while on vacation in Vietnam, realized the need for a rustic escape from life and work in China's financial capital. Horsfield teamed up with Briton Gabriela Lo, who shortly after stumbled upon a decaying Moganshan village (the youngest resident was 61 years old). "Once I found the village," Lo says, "I thought, This is it." After initial skepticism from the locals, Naked leased six of the village's 18 houses and now employs nine of its 14 residents...
...really enjoyed it," Bethan G. N. Williams ’11 told us. "Sunday night is great because of the rustic bread...