Word: caning
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...very parody of the football coach most of us see on television every Saturday, berating his players and gnawing on an age-old cigar butt. But Gravely turns this stereotype into a source of humor--for a while he walks around campus with the help of a cane, which he doesn't need but thinks makes him seem more distinguished and almighty...
Poppy A. Perlegas, 54, walked for three hours with the help of a cane. "My back pain is incredible, honey, but I had to come today," she said...
...toads, introduced to the continent 50 years ago in a failed attempt to control the sugar cane-eating beetle, were all over the paths around camp on rainy nights. The squat, green creatures have multiplied out of control, and they are often systematically killed by motorists and biologists...
...case you want to know, the average home range for an adult cane toad is 340 square meters...
Often singing to all-white audiences in New York's segregated nightclubs, Holiday once sagely commented, "You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation...