Word: across
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gold banner of the outlawed African National Congress over the driveway. Others hoisted a smaller version up a makeshift flagpole atop the roof. Inside, Walter Sisulu, 77, the liberation organization's former secretary-general, conferred by phone with the A.N.C.'s exiled leaders in Lusaka, Zambia. Then he walked across the street to an Anglican church that had been transformed into a meeting hall. Hundreds of supporters were gathered there, celebrating Sisulu's release from prison after serving more than 25 years of a life sentence for sabotage and plotting to overthrow the white government. As he and six other...
...aftershocks jolted the area, geologists fanned out into the mountains to look for changes wrought by the quake. They examined winding roads for fractures and shot laser beams across the fault to measure expected shifts in terrain...
...working telephone or open airport. "It's remarkable that television got satellite feeds out at all, given that things weren't working even at a lower level of technology," he says. San Francisco's two dailies, also without power, had trouble making their deadlines with abbreviated editions, and newspapers across the country relied heavily on TV for their information...
...mysteries of Nimrud were far from solved. Last year, exploring an inner room of the palace, a team of laborers stumbled across a tomb that contained a small collection of necklaces, earrings and gilded pins. In February, Muzahim was granted permission to extend the explorations. Last April, digging near the spot where Christie plotted her thriller, he found what looked like a piece of pavement. When he and his workers cleared off the dirt, they uncovered a small ceramic pipe resembling an air vent. The "pavement" turned out to be the arched roof of a small rectangular tomb. Inside...
...many people, the idea of the great houses of Britain induces reveries of a civilized Eden. Never mind that most of these establishments are now defunct or shells of their former selves; the graceful existence they once accommodated, celebrated in novels and films, lives on. Morning strolls across rolling lawns, with tatters of mist clinging to the ancient oaks and hedgerows. Inside, an assembly of witty weekend guests. Tea at 4; whisky and soda at 6. A sumptuous meal, with candlelight glancing off starched white shirtfronts, bare shoulders and glittering jewelry. Port and cigars, conversation and billiards. And then...