Word: cliffes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...excellent baptism. In six-tenths of a mile, the trail rises sharply 600 ft. We were out of breath halfway up, and I thought my heart was about to pound out of my chest. At 2,800 ft., the trail levels off on a rocky perch called Mount Horrid Cliff. The rock wall drops straight down 500 ft. When the sky cleared, we could see the Adirondacks 50 miles to the west and New Hampshire 40 miles to the east...
Farther up, past buried land mines and anti-tank posts of corroding concrete, up in a pillbox covered with netting and sod, halfway up the cliff, young Dr. Bleagh and his nurse Ivy are relaxing after a difficult lobotomy. His scrubbed and routinized fingers dart beneath her suspender straps, pull outward, release in a sudden great smack and ho-ho-ho from Bleagh as she jumps and laughs too, trying not too hard to squirm away. They lie on a bed of faded old nautical charts, maintenance manuals, burst sandbags and spilled sand, burned matchsticks, and unraveled corktips from cigarettes...
...have served me so loyally during my writing career." It is, perhaps, the ultimate goal of every creator to prove his creation by destroying it (thus the Great Flood). Trollope finally became fairly sick of Barsetshire. A. Conan Doyle did his best to throw Sherlock Holmes off an alpine cliff. Frankenstein's monster always ends in the swamp. Dracula is staked through the heart...
Sensuality. So popular has reggae become that a movie, The Harder They Come, was made this year about a fictional reggae composer. It is the story of a naive country musician-played by Jamaican Jimmy Cliff-who goes to Kingston, records his song, and is ripped off by the crooked record industry, receiving only $20 for a record that may sell thousands of copies. In many ways, the story parallels Cliff's own early experiences in record making and those of many another native reggae musician. Unlike his screen counterpart, Cliff was never paid for his own first record...
However, when the boats cleared rough water, Radcliffe began to pull ahead. And from that point to the finish 600 meters later, Radcliffe called the shots, moving steadily away. By the end of the race the 'Cliff had open water on UMass, the nearest competitor...