Word: sun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cornell University's Faculty Council of Representatives will investigate Cornell's undergraduate swimming requirement to determine its origin and legality as a requirement for graduation, the Cornell Daily Sun reported this week...
Williams coach Chuck Hewett was driving his team home one night in the school's Econoline van. He was munching on some chocolate chip cookies. The sun was bright and the windshield was streaked with dirt, so he flipped down the sun visor. The window scraper fell out, so he tried to catch it, and knocked the cookies off the dashboard in the process. While trying to grab the cookies, he pushed his hat over his eyes. Crunch. The van stopped abruptly at a tree off the side of the road. No one was hurt but the engine was nailed...
...come to the town and taken up the carpenter's trade and produced all this strange variety of ornament: the rising (or setting?) sun shape, the cart-wheel, the star pattern, the pagoda like shapes or one we just called the Spruce St. Variety. There's probably a folk-art monograph and foundation grant in it: "Varieties of the Eave Ornament in the Southeastern U.S. 1880-1920." With color pictures. Out of boredom we began classifying types and snapping a few pictures--to the disbelief and irritation of women on porches who thought we were photographing something going on behind...
Across the street in a house which was identical except for a large hole in the screen door lived a preacher man. He was only a lay preacher. He was short and tough, with a leathery tan from laying roofing in the sun all day and, on his little bones, big muscles filled out the sleeves of his t-shirt. His kids didn't go to public school because of the busing but in his yard was a large sky-blue bus he drove for Sunday School painted with "Have you read your Bible today?" and a big open Bible...
...meet with el padre. I went into my pocket for money, but, of course, they wouldn't let me pay. I thanked them and tottered out of the chilly room. I heard birds singing, saw women satiated with love, felt the friendly rays of the sun: God was in his heaven and all was right with the little world of Morochata...