Word: wagons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shade of maple trees, while a long line of neighbors formed, had their hands shaken and received a few words each, depending on the degree of their acquaintanceship... [At his cousin's home, the President] put on a pair of overalls, removed his collar and tie, loaded a hay wagon. Pictures were then taken...
...nothing. People are desperately scrounging for wild grasses, roots, bark--anything to supplement government rations as low as 12 spoonfuls of grain a day. In one village on the eastern coast, a rice-processing mill has no rice, so it is making noodles from seaweed. Every tractor, truck, wagon and ox-cart has been mobilized to distribute food aid as it comes in. Still, the pain is spreading across this country of 24 million as unremitting hunger stalks the land. Li Han, a Chinese truck driver who crosses the frontier regularly at Guchengli, has watched it. "People over there...
...face to preserve her youthful appearance. Yet thanks to modern marketing techniques and such high-profile users as Irabu, biomagnets could be the hottest thing since sliced bread, which some doctors say would be just as useful affixed to the body. "This is off-the-back-of-your-medicine-wagon kind of stuff," Dr. Douglas Foulk, assistant professor of sports medicine at the University of Colorado, told the Denver Post. "We have zero evidence that [magnets] are beneficial...
...that Stallone doesn't love action films. He sees them as an updating of "the great mythological tales; we just changed the wardrobe a bit." Rambo was the prototype of the one-man-army film. "Yeah," he says with a laugh, "I strapped on the old covered wagon and pulled it across the plains of inventiveness." (He'll probably do another Rambo.) But he admits that some roles he "phoned in--and there's nothing more pathetic than to be complacent in the arts." He has long wanted to do a film "that will be remembered for more than just...
...wasn't that frightened until they threatened to flip our car over," says Kathleen Shuey. She and her husband George were trying to get on the Bay Bridge when their Volvo station wagon was surrounded for no apparent reason by "maybe a hundred" cyclists, one of whom scratched the side of the car. "That's when I got out and ran after him, and I almost grabbed him," says George. "Where does this stop?" Ironically, the Shueys support alternative transportation, but none of the cyclists bothered to ask. George, a Vietnam vet, and his wife, a recovering cancer patient...