Word: dunes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Neighborly Dependence. Yet, despite the violence through which they lived, no province in Europe today seems more blessed with tranquil beauty than Flanders. The soft greys and greens of sand dune, marsh and meadow blend imperceptibly with the pale blues of the sky's rim, along an endlessly level horizon. Ornate old cities, which have known and outgrown greatness, nurse their memories amid a neat patchwork of fields where golden wheat and rye shimmer at each passing breeze. Turning idly in the same soft breeze, the sails of windmills urge the sluggish water along a network of canals which...
Number six man Jim Jones was five up on Dune MacMillan at the end of the 13th hole to win the match, 5-4. End man on the Crimson rostrum, Doug Boyd, posted a 5-4 victory over Bruin Pete Heaton to wrap up the afternoon's play...
...Mountains. The first leg of the five-day race ran through sand-dune country up into high (10,000 ft.), treacherous mountain passes to the Indian town of Oaxaca. Italy's Ascari skidded off the road and cracked up his Ferrari; the surprise first-day leader turned out to be the little (1½-liter) French Gordini, driven by an ex-motorcycle racer named Jean Behra, who set a blistering average of 89 m.p.h. Only 5 min. 37 sec. behind the Frenchman was Italy's Bracco, with Germany's Karl Kling, greying veteran of prewar races, right...
...shows the flecting landscape as ghostly gray and white. And as people pass through mirrors, the glass yields like water or shatters then mends again. And, after Orpheus, tries to follow Death through a looking-glass and fails, his reflection fades into a puddle of water in a sand dune...
...palace, neat but not gaudy, overlooking the oilfields. He collects falcons, saluki dogs and fast Arabian race horses. He has a private preserve of black buck gazelles imported from India, and is the only one allowed to shoot them. Like Kuwait's Abdullah and most of the sand-dune sheiks, he has never traveled beyond the Middle East and doesn't intend...