Word: feast
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Hosted by the Mexican-American student group Raza, Pachanga will provide students with a Thanksgiving dinner and traditional Mexican feast, as well as the chance to hear keynote speaker Jaime Escalante, whose teaching exploits inspired the film Stand and Deliver...
...feast continued on the field, where the BigGreen throroughly digested what was left of theinjury-ridden Harvard offense, which was missingthree linemen and leading receiver Andy Lombara...
...BEASTLY FEAST. Hungry Iraqi soldiers have stormed the Kuwait zoo, killing and eating dozens of gazelles, antelope and other mammals. The World Society for the Protection of Animals has reports that some of the zoo's larger predators are roaming the streets and that a child was killed by a lion...
...that to send such things around the world, or even to move them at all, verges on the irresponsible. Yet museums still feel obliged to lend paintings as hostages to others to ensure reciprocal loans. Only this can explain, for instance, why the National Gallery refused to move its Feast of the Gods (the figures by Bellini, the deep and magically sonorous landscape background by his apprentice Titian) a few city blocks to the Phillips Collection's "Pastoral Landscape" show in 1988, whose centerpiece it should have been, but had no compunction about flying it back and forth across...
Invading animals are also a difficult problem. Rats have been hitching rides to the islands on ships for centuries, then escaping into the forests where they feast on nesting birds and their eggs. Local authorities imported mongooses to hunt the rats in 1883. But no one considered that mongooses hunt in the early morning and early evening, when the rats are not out. So the mongooses switched to birds, compounding the problem...