Word: zephyr
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...beautiful fall day, when I recall what was grand and exalted and now is gone forever--the Burlington Zephyr and the North Coast Limited, the New Yorker of my youth, Memorial Stadium where we spent Saturday afternoons cheering for the Golden Gophers, the Earle Brown farm that was turned into a mall and a subdivision--I think of the SILVER BUTTER KNIFE STEAK FOR TWO, looming above me on a billboard, our car stopped at a red light on Lyndale Avenue in 1952, the Bible on my lap open to Ecclesiastes, my head anointed with Wildroot hair...
...Zephyr C. Davis molded a paper crane, she said the orgami exhibition was her favorite activity of the evening and that she couldn't wait to go home and teach it to her friends...
...Zephyr Hammock...
Style meets substance in this elegant hammock from Heliotrope. Even better, no trees are required. So graceful that it looks as if it could barely support the average weekend catnapper, the Zephyr is sturdy, stable and weather resistant. It can be parked anywhere. Supported by a single center bar, through which a 1-ft. vertical spar is sunk into the ground, the hammock swivels in a full circle so occupants can, say, follow the afternoon sun across the patio...
...stacked cars do not run in the East, where low bridges and tunnels would slice them in half, but they are well suited to the teetering pass through the Sierra Nevadas and the run through the ruddy shadow of the Rockies. The California Zephyr route takes passengers past places they would normally miss -- like Thompson, Utah, where the presence of the train doubles the size of the town. And the Ruby Canyon, the throat-tightening Donner Pass. For additional company, there are bald eagles, elk, prairie dogs, deer springing up alongside the tracks at twilight as the car slides past...