Word: waterer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spirit become attached to things of the world--if some close relation dies, even a wife or a son, he is not too much distressed, because he knows that this is the rule of the world. He lives in the word like a pearly drop of water on a lotus leaf--it moves about the leaf but is not absorbed...
Summer family vacations need not be mindless trips down water slides or endless waits in theme-park lines. The American landscape is literally littered--that is, rich in literary resources that can bring to life the books your family has been reading...
...grab you, create your own adventure. The important thing is to capture the excitement of connecting literary landscapes with real-life places--and to nourish your family's love of reading. And if your kids insist on stopping at an amusement park on the way, one more water slide probably won't kill...
FOOD: Stockpiling extra food and water may be advisable (Y2K report co-authored by Dodd...
About five hours north of Yosemite is Virginia City, Nev., where Samuel Clemens adopted his nom de plume. The conventional wisdom is that "Mark Twain" comes from the riverman's term for water two fathoms deep. Joe Curtis, owner of Mark Twain's Bookstore, offers an alternative theory. Clemens used to order his whiskey two shots at a time in Virginia City, telling the bartender to put it on his tab: "Mark me for twain [two]." Twain wrote for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise in the early 1860s, chronicling the town's gold- and silver-fueled rise. His recollections...