Word: checkerboard
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Peace, Quiet, Eternity. There was evidence of frightful devastation; at the same time there was an air of peace and quiet and eternity. Brown-skinned swimmers plunged in the jade-and-white waters of the bays, and fishermen gazed calmly at the giant battlewagons. Farmers tilling the checkerboard of fields were more concerned with their growing things than with the myriad planes overhead; they did not look...
...villas and liked to call its pleasant hills and forested hummocks "Little Switzerland." Here there were three fine towns: Eindhoven, Nijmegen and Arnhem, rich in the histories of ancient wars and in the traditions of peaceful living. And here Allied parachutists dropped behind German units like pieces on a checkerboard hopping over their opposition...
After the third session, tall, ruddy John Foster Dulles, 56, foreign-affairs adviser to Candidate Thomas E. Dewey, reported to the U.S. press. On crutches (he had an infected foot), he swung out of Mr. Hull's office, across the black & white marble checkerboard hall of the State Department, into the diplomats' waiting room. Said...
...interrupts a comment on Englishmen-"I too love the earth and hate the world"-and in these words remembers a scene at home in Avila: "The broad valley remains visible with its checkerboard of ploughed fields and straggling poplars lining the straight roads, or clustered along the shallow pools by the river; and at night, in the not too distant mountains, the shepherds' fires twinkle like nether stars...
Since then engineers have found, first by trial & error, then by more exact methods, that almost any soil may be used. On small jobs, little special equipment is needed. The ground is plowed, harrowed and cleared of larger stones. Bags of cement are spotted in a checkerboard pattern. Spread evenly, the cement is mixed dry with ordinary farm machinery, (disc and spring-tooth harrows are good), then sprinkled with water and mixed wet until an even color shows that the mix is right...