Word: sage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...canyon, the red-and-white chopper hovers into view. Right ahead of it, seven majestic mustangs pirouette across a low ridge, chest-high in the sage, kicking contrails of acrid dust in their wake. It is their last moment of freedom. An airborne chase that began miles and ridges ago is about...
...erect it. Crawford chooses a gully at the confluence of three trails near a favorite watering spot. His crew toils for a day under a blistering sun erecting the 10-ft.-high cage, securing it with iron stanchions and braces of lodgepole pine, and camouflaging its sides with sage and chimisa bush...
...takes some doing to coax a roomful of sage, serious adult Harvard students into the frame of mind where they will laugh and cheer hysterically at the sight of other Harvard students thrusting one another behind draperies, only to stumble on still others. But it undoubtedly can be done. And while none of the group that troops out--forgetting, for laughter, to rub its collective strained neck--will go home and discuss the finer points of drama, few will escape without the four-year-old gleam in the eye that comes from one last swoop on the ferris wheel...
...State sage or schoolchild can tell you that Franklin Park has never made the tourist brochures as a prime viewing spot for fall foliage. But bunches of Green swarmed across the landscape yesterday afternoon during the Harvard-Dartmouth men's cross country meet, as the visitors overwhelmed their Crimson hosts...
DIED. Chief Dan George, 82, Canadian Indian noted for his portrayal of the sage Old Lodge Skins in the 1970 movie Little Big Man; in Vancouver, Canada. A former stevedore who served for twelve years as chief of the Tse-lal-watt tribe in his native British Columbia, George began an acting career at age 61 in the Canadian television series Cariboo Country, and strongly maintained that Indians should portray themselves in movies and TV. "A white man just does not know how to be an Indian," he argued. "A white man cannot understand what it is that goes...