Word: walks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hastings Hall, a slightly higher-priced brownstone with crawling ivy, walk-in closets and working brick fireplaces draws more enthusiasm...
Stomach pains had plagued Janowski during practices leading up to the game, and they returned Sunday, the day after the upset. That evening, as the team enjoyed a victory dinner in San Francisco, Janowski could barely walk...
...piha, a dull brown-gray bird whose sex appeal lies in its voice--specifically a three-syllable whistle that cuts through the air. As a mate getter it is evidently as attractive as the brilliant orange-and-black plumage of the cock of the rock, the cock of the walk of Suriname's birds. We catch sight of one preening on a high branch. Its head has a flattened crest that looks like a fan from the side, with an eye at bottom center. It makes its nest on the sides of rocks like the Voltzberg, where predators cannot...
...this hectic biology occurs under cover of trees, which creates a darkness equally serene and oppressive. When we finally walk out onto an open granite ledge, I am glad for the light...
...walk the hot, sun-splashed pathways of the village, past the wooden huts with ornate carved doors--they look like Swiss chalets--and a shrine, a flakapau, which displays blue wooden figures, the size of large chess pawns, that represent ancestors. A medicine man sits in his doorway; he cannot rise to greet us because his right leg is greatly swollen from a snakebite. He has treated his wound successfully. Some children follow us as we go, but most are too self-possessed to become groupies. When approached, they respond to questions politely, but mainly they seem to be studying...