Word: tiring
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...Larsen, who arrived in Bolivia in 1968, told a La Paz newspaper that Almaraz's vehicle had entered his property at around 3 a.m. Almaraz, he said, "had not presented any identification. He was drunk and being abusive ... I quieted him with a bullet to his tire. That's the story." But the government insists this wasn't Larsen's first run-in with Almaraz: the rancher is accused of kidnapping the vice minister for eight hours in February. The two alleged incidents prompted the government to file a criminal complaint of "sedition, robbery and other crimes" against Larsen...
...rubber darkness. But the choice of the swing at the center of the iconography of Harvard’s crown jewel social event reveals something about what Harvard students are, what they imagine themselves to be, and how they animate their bizarre concepts of fun. From one direction, the tire swing is just paraphernalia for an afternoon of enjoyment. From another, though, it is a semiotic icon for the unique Harvard imagination of leisure...
...Part of the tire swing’s appeal comes from a desire to retread against Harvard exceptionalism. Somewhere in the dusty corners of our brains is an unadulterated belief that college is about guitars and colorful blankets on sunny days, about idle conversations under the spreading chestnut tree, about endless hours sacrificed to the furnace of Frisbee. This is what television told us, it is what our older siblings at state schools told us, and it is—to a large extent—what the Harvard viewbooks told us. When we arrived here to find it mostly...
...There is no better symbol to represent these hopes and illusions than the tire swing. The romance of the tire swing implies lusting after a place where we can indulge in replaying our childlike urges. Motorless, silent, and cheap, it is the embodiment of the make-do, enterprising, and venturesome childhoods which we might possibly have lived ourselves but more likely read about secondhand...
...irony is that there are plenty of trees with overhanging branches, plenty of sunny days, and plenty of resourceful students who could surely scour up some tires and rope. Idleness beckons all around us, warded off only by the Calvinist remonstrances of our upbringings. And so the tire swing finds itself rarified, parceled out inside a certain number of hours and inside a certain perimeter of fence...