Word: adorn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anything but hum ble. After his death it was gambled away by his son hi one night. A mountain on the Li River is called Elephant Trunk Hill be cause, with only a slight squint of the imagination, it looks like a mighty pachyderm slurping from the stream. An adorn ment of Peking's Summer Palace is called the Jade Belt Bridge; it might well girdle a goddess...
Such sentiments are typical enough in this part of western Wyoming, which still enjoys a lingering sense of pioneer independence and unabashed patriotism. Legends like KEEP AMERICA GREEN and JOIN THE ARMY adorn the bumpers of many a local pickup that rolls into the A & A. Shepherd is not as out of place in this environment as he thinks, though. The A & A looks pretty much the way most gas stations everywhere did before self-service and digital pump readouts set in. But it is only a lasso's throw away from Interstate 80, America's main street...
...time: the last week in August and the first week of September. The usual people were in attendance: Grand Slam Candidate Bjorn Borg with a fortune in endorsement insignia to grace his tennis togs; new women's No. 1 Martina Navratilova with a fortune in gold jewelry to adorn her now-winning form; Chris Evert with a list of crack hairdressers for prematch sprucing up; Vitas Gerulaitis with a list of ear-splitting discos for post-match winding down; Evonne Goolagong stayed home with her baby; Jimmy Connors brought his mother along. Only the place was unusual...
...article of clothing. When a man feels ill, the first thing to do is loosen his tie; it is, after all, pressing against the carotid arteries, impeding the flow of blood to the brain. Practically, the necktie is as supererogatory as those little belts and buckles that used to adorn the backs of men's trousers. The tie has no function except to clean eyeglasses, and even that it does badly. It makes as much sense as the grenade loops on a trench coat, or perhaps even less, since the man in the trench coat can at least carry...
...Hasidic life. For his forthcoming history of the Jews, Wanderings (Knopf; $17.95), the famed novelist visited concentration camps and trekked across the Egyptian sands to Mount Sinai. When he is not traveling or writing, Potok often indulges in an early love for painting; numerous examples of his work adorn his home. In fact, he once wanted to be an artist, but his parents persuaded him to scrap the idea...