Word: gravell
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Elohim City "Grandpa" Millar deplores the entire episode, saying it is another opportunity for the media to besmirch Christian Identity. The settlement has been declared off limits to the press. But speaking from the front seat of the Lincoln parked in the rain-drenched gravel of a country-store parking lot near the settlement, Millar says he would welcome Howe back. "It was not unusual for unstable people to seek us out," he says. "The Church of Jesus Christ exists for such people." And so, apparently, does Elohim City. --With reporting by Patrick E. Cole/Tulsa and Elaine Shannon/Washington
...spinning so fast my eye couldn't follow it, but the inside was rotating almost lazily. I could see a thousand feet up inside it. Tiny fingers of lightning lined the hollow tube. The tornado grew until it covered three-quarters of the sky, then slammed into the gravel 30 yds. away, bounced across the lake and tore up some trees. Drenched and pelted by golf ball-size hailstones, I ran for my truck. By the time I reached it, there was only a gentle drizzle falling, and the birds were singing. DENNIS MCCOWN Austin, Texas...
...Mercedes S-class sedans and the usual Porsches and Lamborghinis, so boring, there was a Lost Safari of Land Rovers, Ford Explorers, Grand Cherokees and GMC Suburbans, all tricked out with steel brush guards, roof racks, off-roading spare-wheel mounts, and black-leather car bras to ward off gravel and grasshoppers on the Paris-Dakar run. Cedergren flashed his perception to his clients: "Cars are now history. The future belongs to trucks...
...owners don't realize are, in fact, trucks? A good bet is that they are scampering away from the honk and fuss and double parking of the world that cars created. TV and magazine ads invariably show pickups and sports utility vehicles parked on a mountain spire or riverside gravel bar, with no pavement or other traffic in sight. Sure. Whether they can get you there in actuality is not important. Even if they are filling-looseners that drive like trucks on washboarded gravel roads, which most of them do, they are unbeatable fantasy machines. Land Rover, which encourages...
...territory is known to have oil and gas deposits that could make it the Saudi Arabia of the north. The area is one of the world's leading sources of diamonds, and Logan notes that 80% of the gold produced there comes from riverbeds and ancient gravel banks, an indication that the republic has barely begun to tap its underground veins...