Word: dirt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...landed in a grassy clearing, O'Grady wasted no time. In seconds, he had shed his parachute and was dashing toward a small clump of bushes. There he quickly dug his face into the dirt and covered his ears with his green gloves so that no bare skin would be visible. Barely in time. Within four minutes, Serbs had swarmed over the area in a furious effort to find...
...most part, my face was in the dirt, and I was just praying they wouldn't see me or hear me," he recalled. At times, his Serb pursuers approached, beating the ground with their rifles in an effort to flush him out. On one occasion, he lay motionless as a cow browsed on blades of grass between his legs. Eventually he nicknamed two cows that were especially fond of his hiding spot "Leroy" and "Alfred"; the old man who herded them he called "Tinkerbell" because of the cowbell he carried. At another point, O'Grady was awakened by the roar...
...want to screw around and waste the first 10 takes on adjusting lighting and everybody else getting comfortable." But this is something more than a personal preference. She likes the reality of a movie scene to "feel captured, as opposed to set up and then driven into the dirt...
...would have seemed positively cavernous; now it's filled nearly to the top with rubble washed in over the centuries by infrequent flash floods. Anyone who wants to traverse the chamber has to crawl through a tight passage, lighted by a string of dim electric light bulbs, where the dirt has been painstakingly cleared away. "It's like crawling under a bed," says Time's Marlowe, "except that it goes on and on, and the ceiling above your head is studded with jagged outcroppings of rock that are in danger of caving...
...America -- which holds out some hope for Senator Bob Packwood, whose ethics case for sexual misconduct entered Phase 2 last week. (The first phase ended with his unsuccessful televised plea from the well of the Senate to keep his diary secret.) When Gennifer Flowers first dished the sexual dirt during the 1992 campaign, talk shows tripped over one another to have her on, and CNN covered her press conference live with all the solemnity of a Gulf War update. Then, hordes of reporters were panting for the full skinny; now she can't give it away. Her original tale commanded...