Word: eight-mile-long
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...dedication ceremonies were held during Boston's second annual Harborpark Day. Harborpark is the ongoing project to improve the city's waterfront and includes plans to build an eight-mile-long public walkway and park land along the harbor...
Their personalities are as diverse as their musical tastes. Leadon and Felder are almost recluses. An eight-mile-long dirt road separates Felder's rustic, ridgeline house from the Pacific coast highway far below. On tour, Leadon is a loner who prowls music stores to discover new instruments for his $80,000 collection. Frey is a nocturnal playboy; Henley reads Rimbaud. Meisner is a family man, calls his Nebraska home daily to check in with his wife and three children...
...morning last week, 99 coal miners on the midnight-to-8-a.m. "cateye" shift were working the rich bituminous veins of the Consolidation Coal Co.'s No. 9 mine in northern West Virginia. Suddenly, deep in the earth, an explosion thundered through the eight-mile-long labyrinth of shafts and tunnels. Shock waves rippled outward for miles, jolting the Marion County mining community into frightened wakefulness. At daybreak, thick clouds of greasy black smoke billowed 150 ft. into the grey morning...
...Eight-hundred miles south and west, other Japanese raiders shelled Johnston Island, an eight-mile-long coral reef and subsidiary base for naval aircraft. Said Imperial headquarters: destruction of "most important defense facilities." Said the U.S. Navy: a weak attack, no casualties...
...When the eight-mile-long parade started over the mountains to Harrisburg next morning it was accompanied by a car full of medical supplies donated by the people of Huntingdon. Nobody paid and nobody tried to collect the 10¢ toll at the Clarks Ferry bridge (over the Susquehanna River). From time to time wheezy motors gave out. Once the bread trucks were hours behind time, but somehow they kept on going. Troopers patrolling the march discreetly looked the other way when they saw a 1931 automobile license in the line. Governor Pinchot had ordered the stringent State law relaxed...
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