Word: gravell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will have half a dozen or more prints to be hung, one at a time, and contemplated according to the seasons. Each object, each gesture gives off a melancholy beauty inimitably Japanese. All is so precisely arranged that a wisp of dried fern or a few swirls of gravel in a garden may seem more overpowering than an Alpine view; a slightly disarranged bamboo blind can suggest chaos...
...perhaps beginning 200,000 years ago. Then something happened to the cave's mouth. It may have been enlarged by a flood (the river was near then), or perhaps some earth movement directed the current against it. At any rate, the cave filled many feet deep with waterborne gravel. It was still habitable, but prometheus seems to have left...
When anthropologists studied the gravel, they found many stones in it whose sharp edges could not have been formed by random jostling in a river bed. The experts decided that at least 17 of them were primitive tools. Conclusion of the experts: some kind of toolmaking human moved into the cave soon after prometheus evacuated...
Died. Oran ("Hot Lips") Page, 46, barrel-chested, gravel-voiced jazzman whose warm-toned, wildly improvised trumpet playing on such records as The Sheik of Araby and Hucklebuck brought him the international accolades of jazz addicts; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...Poor Pig. The once white gravel of Hoppegarten was grey and unkempt. In place of the old gay flags were monotonous red banners. Instead of champagne, there was weak beer; instead of flower girls, old women hawking Communist "reconstruction lottery" tickets. The wives of Communist functionaries walked up and down munching garlic sandwiches...