Word: culverts
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...race barreled northward toward Canada, the snow grew deeper and the trail became a successive range of steep moguls. In the drifting snow, the racers bobbed and weaved, plunging from view only to emerge again and fly across a farmer's driveway or a roadside culvert. Occasionally they would tear onto the shoulder of the road, skimming around a car or truck before hurtling back into the ditch. Driving a 450-lb. snowmobile at high speed on rough terrain is like riding a brahma bull-an exercise in keen judgment and balance. As Driver Al Bergquist, an Illinois farmer...
...evening of Nov. 13, a white Honda automobile swerved off Oklahoma state highway 74 and crashed into a concrete culvert wall, killing Karen G. Silkwood, 28, its sole occupant. Silkwood's death had a far greater impact than most highway fatalities. It brought to light a bizarre mystery that has touched off a series of investigations. It also resulted last week in a special Atomic Energy Commission report about Silkwood and her contamination by one of the most dangerous substances known to man-plutonium...
Suddenly the optimism and euphoria began to fade. VC sappers dynamited a culvert on Highway 13, five miles north of Lai Khe, shattering the comforting illusion that the road was safe. Two patrols of airborne troopers marching toward An Loc were badly mauled in ambushes. Then at 11 a.m. the next day, enemy rockets and mortar shells pelted the column's artillery. ARVN tanks blazed back furiously, but with little success. An ARVN tank was hit by a B40 rocket and exploded into a blazing wreck. Tac air was called in, and for 40 minutes, VNAF Skyraiders...
...salmon raised in a California hatchery was shifted to a different stream when it was a year old. At spawning time the next year, the fish appeared back in its old tank. From the sea, it had found and ascended its home stream, crossed under U.S. Highway 101 by culvert, swum through a storm sewer and up to a flume, finally wriggled through a right-angled 4-in. drainpipe, knocking off its wire cap, and leaped across a wire net that surrounded the drain...
...world's largest black nation. In an open truck near Owerri, rainwater seeped into a glucose bottle attached to the stomach of a chocolate-brown corporal identifiable as "Lucky Devil" from the nickname sewn into his bloody tunic. The truck, carrying a dozen wounded, had fallen into a culvert tunneled out by retreating Biafrans. Rain also slowed the stolid march of exhausted refugees from displaced minority tribes heading south from the fighting...