Word: arroyo
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...April 1970 five-month-old Thomas Robison of Arroyo Grande was admitted to Sierra Vista Hospital in nearby San Luis Obispo, where Xrays showed that his skull was fractured from ear to ear. The boy's 17-year-old mother, who was living with an AWOL soldier, said he had fallen off a bed, and the child was returned to the mother three days later. Twice within the next month he required further hospital treatment for injuries that included whip welts on the back, puncture wounds in the neck, and burned fingertips; the last time he had strangulation marks...
...radical Latin American clerics are a small minority everywhere. But in some countries, at least, they form a vocal, dedicated cadre determined to influence the masses through conscientizacion-"consciousness raising"-or as some now prefer, politizacion. Chile's radical priests' organization, which is led by Jesuit Gonzalo Arroyo, the congress organizer, is called the Group of 80-in a nation that has 2,500 priests. An Argentine priests' group, the Third World Movement, claims 400 members out of a clergy numbering 5,200. Mexico's new Movement of Priests for the People says...
...presents several liabilities when it comes to filming anything longer than 60 seconds. The movie has a tendency to be episodic and rather punchy, and the visual style is too pretty. Every time the cowboys saddle up it looks as if they're about to ride up the arroyo for a Pepsi...
...photograph that has caused the most excitement among scientists shows a 250-mile-long valley that resembles an arroyo (a water-cut gulley common in semiarid regions on earth). The valley is 3½ miles wide and has branching, streamlike tributaries that seem more likely to have been formed by water than by lava. "We are hard put to find a mechanism other than running water for these features," says Harold Masursky of the U.S. Geolog ical Survey. Although scientists agree that there is no free-flowing water on the Martian surface now, the sharp and uneroded features...
...them, the clouds now whiter and still moving the sun now higher the light, now above the mountains, has moved from eclipse to sharper distinction, less peaceful stasis pinon-you smell it as everything around you clouds and light moving across the mesa the highway lost as a thirsting arroyo, brief and fearful potential, one can run across any land easiest in the arroyos-the length greater, but the water does it because it is the only way-if not meander, then a tacking against and with gravity, for the integrity of the land, journey to an ocean, the long...