Word: vernal
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...away when his wife complained of puzzle-neglect. He made a breakthrough by linking the inscription under one picture, "One of Six to Eight," to Catherine of Aragon, the first of Henry VIII's six wives. Thomas also divined another key clue: a pictorial reference to the vernal equinox indicating an object whose shadow on that day, March 21, would point to the buried treasure...
Despite the disappointing finish, Harvard won't have to mothball all its clubs until the vernal equinox brings golf out of hibernation, Co-captain Carroll Lowenstein and standout freshmen Chet Nastala both qualified for individual play in next week's championship...
...cast with total precision. Carroll had a predilection for small girls. Streep is so far from being petite that she might have intimidated that slight figure of a man. However, the radiant tightness of her features, her gestures, her bearing and her voice leads us into the vernal garden of childhood and the willing sus pension of disbelief. She turns two scenes into acting marvels. In one she mimics Humpty Dumpty about to fall off the wall but retaining full possession of a frog-horned comic baritone voice, and in the other she conducts the dialogue between Alice...
...phrenology were in vogue, Sam Shepard would be the most prized anatomical medicine man among U.S. playwrights. He knows how to feel every bump on or under the American skull. He views the U.S. mind as a nest of conflicted vision -the lost but lingering vernal dream of hope and purity vying with the corruptive greed of technological gimcrackery...
...spent millions experimenting with shale-oil extraction in Colorado's Piceance Basin. Occidental Chairman Armand Hammer believes that his company will be able to begin commercial production by 1985, keeping costs below $25 per bbl. Today other companies are digging mines near Grand Junction and Rangely, Colo., and Vernal, Utah. Exxon is the most enthusiastic: last May the oil giant paid Atlantic Richfield $400 million for its share in the Colony oil-shale project in Colorado, and now plans to spend $500 billion over the next 30 years to build 150 installations on Colorado's Western Slope. Estimated...