Word: woodses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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"Go," the starter says softly, and we tear up the trail at top speed, map in one hand, compass in the other. The trail goes dead north, then begins to curve east. Suddenly another trail appears, this one not marked on the map. We are tempted, but keep going. Another...
When embroidering such assumptions, Wolfe rarely sounds serious. Anyone who can describe Jimmy Carter's brand of religious faith as "Missionary lecternpounding Amenten-finger C-major chord Sister-Martha-at-the-Yamaha keyboard loblolly pineywoods Baptist" has not succumbed to ideological portentousness. Yet he clearly...
WESTEC, now Tech-Sym. Record high stock price (1966): $67. Low (1974): 37?. Last week: 75?. Westec was a Texas-based real estate-mining-drilling equipment conglomerate that collapsed in 1966 after officers had inflated earnings and assets to drive up the price of the stock. Its founder, Jim Williams...
A plenitude of wild game, the authors point out, gave Americans their insatiable meat tooth-they average nearly 200 lbs. a year per person. Even the once numerous Hudson River sturgeon were called "Albany beef." With woods and waters full of food, many early settlers found little incentive to farm...
LONDON is a deceiver. On an ordinary street the houses can suddenly close in and stop abruptly with a fence. Stray dogs and debris wander into the blocked street. Beyond it is another district, perhaps with a small church or some woods. But the map, marked by intersecting lines, gives...