Word: surly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Honored along with the 13 men was Victoria Ocampo, the editor of Sur, an Argentine literary and cultural review which she established in 1933. She received a Doctor of Letters degree for her writings and translations...
...hovercraft, lifted by pressure produced by the air stream from horizontally mounted fans and driven laterally by aircraft-type propellers. Although the ingenious craft could skim almost effortlessly along smooth highways and waterways at automobile speeds, even the most powerful could not rise more than a foot above the sur face; the air curtain could not effectively contain pressurized air above this height. As a result, hovercraft could not operate over choppy seas or rough ground, where they might smash into jutting rocks or wave tops...
When the "strange loneliness" of his sudden success begins to bug him, he takes his wife Beverly to a spa and "meditation center" in the Big Sur. "You sit in those baths," he says, "steaming and watching the stars fall and relating to yourself and to other people. Or you stand next to a tree that you know has been there for 3,000 years. Its age puts you in perspective, tells you where...
...raise my barbaric yawp sur les toits de Paris...
...discovered the first time around in the Mesopotamian city of Ga-Sur, about 200 miles north of Babylon...