Word: crisscross
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...testing ground for ideas and theories, hopes and aspirations that remain decaying on bookshelves in the Western world. After the accumulation of fact and the compilation of interpretation, students search for a future to be shaped. But in the Old World, history has ossified like the concrete highways that crisscross Europe...
Larry Mahan, the sport's biggest winner before Ferguson arrived, hops from town to town in his own Cessna 310. But Mahan took in $64,000 last year. Nonstellar cowboys endure an endless string of sleepless nights as they crisscross Western highways in their cars and pickup trucks...
Public opinion toward the President has turned as chill as the autumn air in New England. On the many college campuses that crisscross the region, the issue of impeachment is reviving some of the protest fervor of the anti-Viet Nam War days. What has been the topic of dining-hall conversation for some time has now become the subject of polls, petitions and street placards...
Hidden Guns. Driving along the modern paved highways that crisscross Quemoy, one can imagine the island as a bucolic, semitropical retreat, but under the lush greenery are machine-gun and artillery emplacements, truck depots, trenches, and the gaping mouths of tunnels that honeycomb the hills. Blasted out of solid rock, these tunnels are 25 by 35 ft., large enough so that tanks and trucks can drive for miles inside them. One tunnel where the molelike troops are quartered contains half a mile of double-decked bunks. There is even a 1,000-seat theater hollowed out of the granite. Everywhere...
Less may be more, according to the new designers, but for Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's dictum to be true, as he well knew, careful attention must be paid to structure, to supports, to underpinnings. Barrie frankly uses narrow crisscross straps, back or front. Crahay of Lanvin hangs his backless clothes from tied stock collars. Donald Brooks has engineered foundations into his backless dresses, so secure that a woman can even "curtsy and not fall out," he claims. But for women who want to be both bared and bra-ed, complicated problems lie ahead. One possibility...