Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rugged, snow-mantled mountainside above Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, Joloi Beishenov tends his flock on horseback, as his ancestors did centuries ago. During the cold season he shelters his 70 sheep in two traditional canvas yurts and lives alone in a spartan wooden shack until the warm weather brings his family up from the lowlands. This spring there is another new season, the opening out of the former Soviet Union; Beishenov has heard about new economic reforms, and hopes to rent from a neighboring state farm the strip of stony pasture he uses for grazing. But he is unmoved...
What do you remember about the circus? Maybe you remember gaudy costumes, or carved wooden emblazonry, or thick crowds, their collective waistline at your eye-level. Maybe you remember the smells: sawdust, roasted peanuts, canvas, hot caramel and the wet-leather-on-a-radiator musk of exotic animals...
...shop has since moved to a basement location beneath Ferranti-Dege. In the front room, a glass display case contains silicone spray, Lexol leather conditioner, stain protector, suede dye, wooden shoe stretchers Fiebing's edge ink, Cavalier leather balm, shoelaces, shoehorns, three dozen tones of Meltonian creme polish...
...seriousness of that quest was underscored last week as Tsongas and Clinton met in an unprecedented one-on-one debate about economic issues arranged and moderated by TIME. Facing each other across a wooden table in a small conference room at Chicago's Midway Airport, the two rivals engaged in a freewheeling, hourlong dialogue on whose ideas can best restore the country's economic strength...
...friends lie awake praying they won't get Quadded, I can sleep in an old wooden Victorian home only a ten minute walk from the Yard...