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Before MacArthur finally received the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay, though, would come three grinding years of "island hopping," the slow and painful campaign across the South Pacific from the fetid jungles of New Guinea to the barricaded caves of Okinawa. The first of these battles, and one of the...
Robb Hirch has been that kind of clutch player all season long for the Crimson. On one fourth-and-three, Hirsch looked like Steelers great Franco Harris, putting his head down and grinding out the necessary yardage to pick up the first down and keep the drive alive.
The city was seen as the mill of oppression, grinding women down into whoredom and men into anonymity. German artists like George Grosz, Karl Hubbuch and the remarkable and still underknown Hannah Hoch imagined it as a grotesque theater, full of libido and irony -- the stage of a morality play...
From the cobblestoned streets of Bath, where angry Britons turned hoses on tour buses grinding through their neighborhoods last summer, to the sinking shores of Venice, where visitors on a summer Sunday often number 100,000, overcrowding, pollution and plain incivility have become unwelcome guests. Europeans in particular are realizing...
But the volcanoes clustered along the Ring of Fire are more dangerous. The ring traces a geologically active zone where sections of the earth's crust, known as plates, are colliding. Generally the weaker oceanic plates are forced beneath the thicker continental slabs. The friction of grinding rock, combined with...