Word: alleyways
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From a wide alleyway where six colts and a mule have withstood an early downpour, Jay, a lanky cowboy from northern Wyoming, turns a wild-eyed sorrel horse into the corral where Ray is waiting on his gray mare. The colt's body is rigid, and he lets out the kind of snorts that make a cowboy take a deep seat on frosty mornings. "A horse has a mind," Rays says, watching the colt. "He gets scared and bold, sure and unsure, sick and well. He says, 'Maybe. I don't know. All right . . .' and too often...
...Ravine--the three-foot-deep gulley crafted down the middle of the quad to allow trucks and workmen into the hole and the mountain--will become a treacherous travail through ice and snow. One can only wonder at the number of additional people on crutches due to the new alleyway...
Steering committee member Ann Pellegrini '86 said that advertising meetings at the old location was like saying, "Women are going to be in an alleyway at 7:30 tonight; come mug us." Pelligrini said she is excited about the fresh start afforded by the new location...
Even now, days after the bombing, diplomatic security in Lebanon remains inadequate. The old embassy, which still has U.S. personnel and government papers, is guarded by sleeping Lebanese soldiers. An alleyway leading to its front entrance has been left totally open, according to news reports...
...alleyway below the house, the Marines tried frantically to save the injured. Working in a pool of light cast by a Lebanese boy's flashlight, they applied dressings in a vain attempt to stanch the flow of blood from a stomach wound. When the man died, they moved quickly to help in treating the other casualties. "They kept encouraging a Marine who was wounded in the leg," recalled the boy, Nizar Nassib Kady, 16, whose family lived in the two-story residence underneath the Marine position. "They kept saying to him, 'Don't give up hope.' They were nervous...