Word: shade
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...tell that to Guy Cubaynes, a truffle harvester from the southern French town of Lalbenque, who is taking his 250-kg pig Kiki out for a truffle hunt. Cubaynes' family has been gathering truffles since the 1850s, searching for the fungi in the shade of oak trees. He says dealers in Chinese truffles have even infiltrated the center of French-truffle production. Every week, Cubaynes claims, these merchants show up at the market in Lalbenque with the same number of truffles in their baskets, a suspicious constancy. "It's cheating the consumer," says Cubaynes, "and it's also cheating...
...Others, including Aiken, complained bitterly about "this self-appointed judge and executioner." Jarrell replied in print that "it is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad." In private he was a shade more merciful. He wrote but then urged an editor not to print a review of an Archibald MacLeish book: "It would depress and vex the poor guy and do no good...
...back in the heat. There was no shade to cool me. Thick clouds were billowing above my head. It was a thunderhead. Fires glowed in the clouds. The sky was dark. I thought, 'I will never see my mother again.' Then I passed...
...spontaneously threw up her arms and shouted to the assembly, "You have changed my life!" In yet another, a raven-haired Bolivian in a felt bowler talked excitedly to a veiled woman from the Western Sahara. Each day at noon, Betty Friedan conducted an informal seminar in the cool shade of a fig tree. And nearby, a dozen black-robed Iranian women assembled on the green to argue the merits of Islamic fundamentalism. Gesturing toward a group of bare-faced Westerners, the Iranians' male guardian commented, "They think these women are bodies without souls...
...then consider the fact that Klimkiewicz was arguably the best player in the league at the time, and had already attracted pro scouts after hitting nearly .480 with 15 steals, eight homers, and just a shade under...