Word: sapping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Vermonters, mud season is mystical and inscrutable, a time to celebrate survival and renewal, even as they curse the ooze underfoot. It is a time to kayak on flooded rivers, to boil maple sap, to do some spring cleaning (Vermonters say, with reason, "I'm going to hoe out my house"). It is a time to stand outside in fresh air hinting of the grass and lilacs to come, and to be hugely entertained by the sight of neighbors and innocent strangers dealing with...
...above the Wilders' house, on Bear Hill Road, Farmer Gaylen Brown is setting out to collect, from 1,000 buckets, the last of the maple sap. He pauses to bulldoze a passer-by out of the bottomless depths across from his house. The Browns have farmed these 175 acres for almost 70 years. His daughter Theresa, 19, and son Willis, 20, are the fourth generation of Browns on the place. "Mud season's not so bad as it used to be," says Brown. "We used to have to hitch up the horses to the wagon and draw...
...right-wing factions that could sap Duarte's strength in the assembly is led by Roberto d'Aubuisson, a former Salvadoran national guard intelligence officer who has been repeatedly accused of being a death squad leader, a charge he ignores. He has become an attractive campaigner with a winning smile and a promise to step up the war against the guerrillas. Atone recent rally, the members of the audience put their hands over their hearts while a tape played the party's anthem, a light plane soared overhead dropping party leaflets, and, just as the song ended, D'Aubuisson drove...
...retirement, John's scene calls for him to grin as he is introduced in a crowded fight arena. The Fade-Out. "I climbed into the ring and waved at the screaming crowd," says John of his scene. "The roar of the crowd, the flush of blood-the sap begins to flow through the branches. It was enough to make one want to get back into politics again...
...however, lies with past teen-age attitudes toward learning and a decade-long decline in high school standards. Wayne Brown of the Tennessee higher education commission believes that the $1 million spent in his state on college remediation should be recycled into high school programs. Says Brown: "Remedial courses sap the energy of the college and university faculty. We must say to the high schools that it really does matter how well the student learns math and English...