Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are, of course, less passionate participants in the debate: farmers and lawmakers who agree that agriculture should be weaned from dependence on Government but fear that the Reagan Administration is trying to move too fast at the worst possible time. Jack Stone, president of the California-based Western Cotton Growers Association, comments ruefully, "Over the years, our farmers have been for more world-competitive, market-oriented programs. Now that we may be forced into them, it's scaring...
Every year the haunting stone ruins on the steep eastern slope of the Peruvian Andes are pummeled by up to 230 in. of rain. Getting to the site, 300 miles north of Lima, requires a five-day trudge through some of the highest tropical jungle in South America, a haven for jaguars, spectacled bears and giant anteaters...
...ruins, the Colorado team was awed by the handiwork of the ancient craftsmen. Slate-roofed towers jut from the mountainside, the possible burial sites of the elite. Below them are 16 round multistoried buildings constructed of slate, wood and mudlike mortar; many of the structures are decorated with stone carvings of birds, animals, geometric designs and human stick figures capped by feather headdresses. Colorful paint survives on some walls, and large swatches of fabric were found scattered among the burial sites. Terraced fields sculpted into the slope indicate sophisticated agricultural techniques. Perhaps most amazing, says Lennon, 3-ft.-high wood...
...scream again, as it happens, by this same hut, near the end of her story; Justin's creator endows memory with intricate patterns of repetition. Between these two outbursts, the girl finds herself "enchanted" and "bewitched" by the woman she has stumbled across. Ursula DeVane, 44, lives in a stone house her ancestors put up two centuries earlier; she shares the place with her younger brother Julian, a melancholy piano teacher whom ^ Ursula is determined to force into fulfilling his early promise as a concert performer. To this end, she has sacrificed her own career as an actress and successive...
Rosovsky attributes the popularity of "Rice Paddies" to widespread interest in Japan, and the fact that it is a "one stone, two bird course," meaning that the one-semester course fulfills both the Historical Study A and Foreign Cultures parts of the core...