Word: gravell
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...goes by the name of the Pine Grove Elementary School, a stark clapboard affair the size of a mobile home, some 40 miles of gravel road from Jordan, a hiccup of a town on the plains of eastern Montana. Pine Grove is one of 640 one-room public schoolhouses left in the U.S., a good example of a vanishing breed that occupies a hallowed place in American mythology. And the formula still works. Montana alone has more than 100 one-room schools in operation, and the state ranks third nationally in achievement tests...
...their peers in such a public tribunal. Seated at separate tables to underscore their differing levels of involvement with indicted savings and loan wheeler-dealer Charles Keating, the five were fighting to regain reputations earned in a lifetime of public service. Their common challenge, as described in the gravel tones of committee chairman Howell Heflin of Alabama, was to erase the perception that "your services were bought by Charles Keating, that you were bribed, that you sold your office...
Fundamental to Heaney's success is his ability to recreate his native landscape on the page. The smoothness of the hills and the scuff of gravel under thick-soled shoes make themselves felt not just in the words' literal meaning but in the assonance and consonance of their sound. It is a world whose outer forms are rounded, full with what lies beneath. This external landscape then becomes a thing to be explored, dug into, its inner forms revealed...
...have helped rescue dinosaurs from the abstract realm of monsters, enabling people to view them for the first time as real animals. These theories have earned such respect in the scientific community that Horner, who flunked out of college seven times and was driving a truck in the family gravel business only 15 years ago, now heads the largest dinosaur research team in the country. Supported in part by the National Science Foundation and a MacArthur Foundation "genius award," Horner oversees a staff of seven and six students. At the same time, his concepts of the social and family lives...
...were something he could get his hands on, and he put in a total of seven years pursuing courses in paleontology without earning a degree. He describes himself then as "driven" and says, "I didn't want to seem like just another idiot." Horner went into the family's gravel business, but he continued to hunt for a job in the dinosaur line, finally landing one in 1975 as an assistant in paleontology at Princeton University, where his first assignment was to straighten bent nails. There, at the age of 31, he discovered that his academic problem was not stupidity...