Word: thin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crops. Without the forests, which act as great sponges that sop up and hold rainfall, the water rapidly ran off the slopes. The accelerated runoff caused disastrous floods over the past year. In cleared jungles in Mexico, Guatemala and Brazil, heavy rains quickly leached the nutrients from the thin layer of topsoil, rendering the land infertile within a year or two. (The trees had both anchored and nourished the soil.) In other cleared jungles, the sun burned out the soil's valuable organic content...
...horrifying whirlpool of slime, filth, and most dangerous of all, rapscallions on the shore waiting in ambush. There was no telling what would show up on a day's row. Once, we found a dead buck--it was unmarked so we speculated that it had fallen through some thin ice. Another time a man's body was found...
...water was a greenish, oil-laden composition, often full of large black gobs, that would only come off the shells with gasoline. But it's hard to tell which was worse, the water or the people walking along side. A thin breakwall separated the canal from the river and Lake Erie, and oftentimes, fishermen would cast a line into the canal, although only disease-ridden carp could still live in it. Once, during a race, a fisherman cast his line clear over a boat and while he was still within shouting distance the air was full of invectives between...
...experience--she hoped to distill the purest state of love, or fear, or aloneness from them. By concentrating on private mental worlds--which Nin called "cities of the interior"--she aimed at poetic psychoanalysis. Bewildered critics tagged her a surrealist, while more aggressive readers accused her of grouping in thin air for the inexpressible and didn't even find anything to hang a label...
...hear the train whistle at night and the coyotes in a pack with their thin wailing cries answering the train, mistaking it for the cry of another animal in the night. The first night I thought it was a woman in labor pains...