Word: battlefield
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Congealed Spray. After the War of 1812, the falls were fashionable. Southern gentry traveled up to see the battlefield of Lundy's Lane and to summer by the mint-cool falls. But the era was short-lived. After the Erie Canal was completed in 1827, Niagara Falls became the first frontier town on the way West. By the time the New York Central came in 1858, it was one of the rip-roaringest burgs in the U.S. Floozies and fakes, barkers and con men made the Niagara the rube's Rubicon. "Indian chiefs"-chiefly from Ireland-plied...
Grenier's linguistic skill runs deeper than assembling musical combinations of tones and letters. He uses the combinations to construct vivid visual and emotional scenes. "Grodek" pictures a battlefield strewn with casualties, among which a nurse walks "to greet the ghosts of heroes, bleeding heads...
Elkhart, Ind., is quite a town. It has 40,000 inhabitants - and 40 millionaires. It is the site of an early Indian battlefield, the musical-instrument capital of the U.S., the center of more mobile-home makers (50) than any other spot on earth. Elkhart also has a special relationship with - and dependence on - the upset stomachs, nervous headaches and run-down feelings of the nation. It is the home of Miles Laboratories, maker of two of the world's most popular household remedies, Alka-Seltzer and One-A-Day Brand vitamin capsules. The histories of Elkhart and Miles...
...from the outset, Civil War buffs wearing uniforms and carrying old muskets set out to re-enact alt the war's major battles. At Bull Run, in July 1961, 70,000 spectators cheered more than 2,000 men and boys as they replayed the battle, charging across the battlefield, shooting blanks, and falling off their horses. Casualties at 1961's Bull Run: 185 cases of heat exhaustion, twelve bee stings...
Human Shield. In South Viet Nam, the gases have been used on the battlefield at least half a dozen times, but never with much success. The first time was last December in an attempt to free four U.S. prisoners of the Viet Cong. U.S. officers hoped to incapacitate everyone, prisoners and captors alike, then send in a masked Special Forces Unit to rescue the Americans. The operation failed because the gas, squirted through air hoses from a helicopter overhead, could not penetrate the dense foliage...