Word: pearse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Not only are the hours long, but the work is almost always monotonous hand labor; and many times this summer I felt I had been transported back in time several centuries. We spent most of the time picking fruit: peaches, pears, and cherries. Each day, every day, we slowly wound...
Each branch of the spruce was tied to the trunk. The 11-ft. ball was shaped by hand, contained with burlap, hog wire, a rope girdle and an oaken tub. Mrs. Myers insisted that the work crew, neighbors and reporters stay for lunch. For three days they worked and ate...
Snow still caps the fir-covered mountains of southwest Oregon despite the warm spring sun that has lured burly loggers from their hibernation and drawn orchardmen back to their pear trees. In this lovely, sparsely populated land, dark green trees provide jobs and profits. But among the budding fruit boughs...
Wearying Ebullience. As for Shaw - what are we to do with him? He ap pears to be a congenitally ebullient fel low, willing to do anything to perk up a dull scene. Here he plays the local expert on treasure hunting, full of unexplained but noisy eccentricities, which he cheerfully...
There last week at the age of 63, Britten died peacefully in bed when his weakened heart gave out. He had never fully recovered from open-heart surgery early in 1973 for implantation of an artificial heart valve. He came out of the anesthesia with partial paralysis of his right...