Word: boulder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weakness stole through the thighs of Adam, unmanning him so that, to his own astonishment, he sank down into the cool grass and leaned his back against a boulder of grey granite . . . Now the first patient in the world was fully under the initial anesthesia, ready for the original surgery." When he came to, there stood Eve, "on small, bare feet in the cool grass...
...find the evidence. Attempts to find fragments of nickel-iron from the meteorite were unsuccessful. The expedition's mine detectors (lent by the U.S. Army) were scarcely more useful: they gave too many indications, squealed excitedly whenever they were brought near an ordinary granite boulder. Apparently, said Geologist Meen, the granite of the region contains enough magnetic iron ore to drive a mine detector wild...
...found the typical boulder-strewn cave that forms when mountains shudder and crack. Water filters down, eroding giant shafts, forming subterranean lakes over layers of impermeable clay. Later earthquakes sometimes crack the lake floor, draining off the water and leaving immense underground chambers...
...member from 1938 until the spring of 1943-He also refused to give the names of fellow members who he believed had also dropped their Communist connections. Back in Denver, some of the state legislators were far from satisfied. Why, they demanded, was an ex-party member teaching at Boulder...
...Seoul, the bodies of 35 men, women & children were found on the boulder-strewn side of Songbok hill where they had been shot down by Communist police. Mayor K. B. Lee of Seoul said that the dead had been relatives of members of the national police force who escaped in the early stages of the invasion. Other Seoul witnesses described how 2,000 young men, said to be members of an anti-Communist organization, had been lined up along the banks of the Han River and machine-gunned...