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...encountered the Gem of Egypt on a recent trip along Interstate 70 in Ohio. It reminded me of old horror movies in which huge tarantulas and other assorted monsters crawl across the countryside terrorizing the citizenry...
...Easington Colliery was sunk into the rich coal seams that lace County Durham. The tunneling now extends for miles in all directions. To reach the end of the most distant coal face, which extends 51 miles offshore beneath the North Sea, the miners must ride and walk-and sometimes crawl -through the black holes and seeping brine for more than an hour. D. H. Lawrence described their kind of life in Sons and Lovers in 1913: "And there is a sort of shadow over all, women and children and men, because money will be short...
...best when he describes the fires he has fought. In scene after scene the men of Company 82 race up the stairs of flaming tenements, hose-whip tornadoes of dark orange flame, crawl through smoke as thick as gravy, groping for bodies, stagger out with a tragic load of suffocated mothers and babies, then puke black phlegm all over the pavement. Many victims, it is true, are brought out alive-Engine Co. 82 performs prodigies of rescue every...
...again: thousands and thousands of people lying flat on their faces on the ground. I was lying on my mouth and nose." While prone, she tried "to tell the people to keep their heads down and on no account to rise any higher than their knees, but to crawl-crawl on the streets of their own city, on their hands and knees-out of the line of fire. That is what they...
Harvard jumped to its second goal after only 11 seconds of the second period, as Desmond flew down the left wing and fired home a 30-foot slapshot. The Crimson soon slowed to a crawl, however, and Northeastern narrowed the gap at 4:08. Alan Gunkle made it 2-1, dekeing out Harvard goalie Joe Bertagna on a breakaway...