Word: leafless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with a ton of yellow birch cordwood aboard, has sunk to her rusty frame in a mushy patch of logging road. Linda has four-wheel drive and a lot of heart, but this is a Sargasso of mud, the kind that bogs the wood lot every year after the leafless forest trees stop drinking water and the October rains come. Linda's friend and owner disembarks to consider the problem...
...this evening, where to go next week -- a rapid shift of the attention that left no time for emotions to sink in. Escaping down 59th Street to Central Park, re-running the film in our minds, two of us followed a silent, twisted path around boulders and leafless trees. The fog joined nearby buildings into solid walls; the isolation, the desolation, were nearly as great as the initial feelings engendered by the film...
...track is a mile-and-an-eighth long. The area it encloses is sparsely landscaped with thin leafless trees and neatly-clipped evergreens. A small artificial pond glitters behind the big board. Constantly changing lights on the board's surface indicate the odds on each horse, the amount of money bet to win, place, or show; the time of day, post time, the condition of the track, and the numbers of the first four horses to cross the finish line...