Word: tropics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...awoke. Her eyes bright open, and aching with fettered tears. Her eyes searching to understand where she might be; kneeling and praying in the cruel tropic rain. She was turned toward a wall, now, but this room was black with late night shadows. Wall? What wall? She stretched out her hand, preparing to turn over, and felt surprise burn up her arm like electricity as she touched a thigh. Whose thigh...
...much private bureaucracy." Nor has he limited his political practice (which earns him no more than about $30,000 a year) to left-wing cases. He also won the reinstatement of Julian Bond to the Georgia legislature, and he overturned the ban on Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer...
...Tropic of Cancer, his first published work, was a shout of exultation. Miller, emerging free from the shackles of superfluous duties to society, was suddenly beset by a tremendous hunger for the sensuous life available in Paris. His book asserted the joy of the present and laid the foundation for a lifelong detachment from the ruin of a material universe, a spiritual self-sufficiency which bordered on solipsism...
...exhibition series in Hawaii had been a time to loll on the beach and sip a Mai Tai or two. This season, game or no game, Sharman hustled the team off each morning to a rickety, dimly lit high school gymnasium to sweat for three hours in the tropic heat. "I went to Hawaii with a tan," says Jerry West, "and I came home without...
Atop 5,820-ft. Mount Ulu Kali, the tropic air turns chill at night and lights from the distant capital of Kuala Lumpur glitter like diamonds. But visitors to the new 200-room Genting Highlands Hotel could hardly care less about the breathtaking view. Since the resort opened in May, thousands of eager customers have driven up a misty, winding mountain road for a headier kind of excitement-gambling in Malaysia's first legalized casino...