Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...River Nile, at a spot not far from the Sudan, crews of lean German engineers last week unloaded their heavy earth-moving equipment, unfurled their geological maps, and began plotting the most daring construction job undertaken in Egypt since the Pharaohs built the Pyramids. Carved in the sandstone cliff above the Germans' camp are the 3,300-year-old monuments of Abu Simbel - two cavernous temples and ten mammoth statues built by Ramses II. The job: to cut these relics out of the cliff side and lift them, piece by piece, to be assembled on a higher location, where...
Wade said, "He then--the bus, he asked the bus driver to stop, got off at a stop, caught a taxicab, Driver Click--I don't have the exact place--and went to his home in Oak Cliff, changed his clothes hurriedly, and left...
...claim that the highly publicized examples raise the average size of all awards and settlements. What bothers the underwriters more than the occasional big payoff is the widespread evidence of fraud. In one macabre conspiracy, a Los Angeles man arranged to have a friend push his car off a cliff, smash both his legs with a padded brick, and place him and his drugged wife beside the wreck. "No one would ever believe that I was crazy enough," boasted the man; the plot was uncovered-and the conspirators jailed-only because his friend got frightened and called the sheriff...
...burned off all vegetation to reveal telltale potsherds. Sometimes he gets shot at, but he seems to enjoy such trouble. Last summer he briefly visited Ain-Mugharah (Spring of the Caves). "It's smack on the Sinai border," he says, "and it's a little dangerous. A cliff overhangs the spring; anyone can shoot down." There are many ancient sites there from the time of Abraham and the Judean Kings, but "no one goes there now," Glueck says, "except a few Bedouins, the Egyptian infiltrators and an archaeologist like...
...issue of the paper devotes more than a full page and a half to photos and sketches of "Cliff Dwellers" (sic). Reporter Marian Christy notes the prevalence of dark knee skimming shifts, turtleneck jerseys, ponchos, and capes. "Sunny colors and sprightly plaids rate," she writes, and "yellow, orange, purple, butterscotch...