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...mountains for birds' eggs; the birds nested in the mountains' muddy surface. "One day he asked me to go with him, but I was busy. By evening he had not returned home. His parents were very concerned, and they organized a search party. When the search party came upon the boy, they found him walking in a huge circle, round and round. He kept repeating, 'I have grown taller. My legs are long.' Everyone assumed that a tanuki had put a spell...
...machinations of the experts and professionals have remained hidden from the public, the effects of the weapons have been continually described and displayed. In the space between secret processes and demonstrated effects, the public imagination has produced works in which the ends were always clear, and thus focused upon, and the means obscure, and thus ignored...
...castle is guarded by two pterodactyl-like birds, flapping, screeching, ever ready to swoop down and carry off the better elements populating this mythical kingdom. Eventually, the evil monarch and his minions find out from our friends where the long-hidden black cauldron lies and set loose upon the world the dreadful army of the dead it contains. "But Daddy," a million tiny voices will ask, "is it going to come out all right...
...weeks ago, Fisher's persistence paid off. His divers, reconnoitering 54 ft. below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, 40 miles west of Key West, came upon what Bleth McHaley, vice president of Fisher's Treasure Salvors Inc., has since described as "a reef of silver bars with lobsters living in it." Many are now calling the find the largest ever recovered from a shipwreck. "They were jumping up and down and waving their hands at us in the water," says Kane Fisher, Mel's 26-year-old son, referring to the pair of divers who made the initial discovery...
...requirement that anyone Saturn hired who was a union member and a current or former GM employee would be guaranteed lifetime job security. U.A.W. President Owen Beiber praised the pact. Said he: "For the first time in history, our union will have a great deal of input upon how the plant is operated...