Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...instance, an Edam Cheese dish (it's in the book), stuffed with fish and fruit, a Chocolate Pie which comes out in separate layers. Then, there are simple things like a Mountain Soup; exotic dishes like Moghal Rice from India, Avocado Ice Cream from Hawaii, and a Ground-Nut Chop from West Africa that should be an experience for any American palate...
...Along the creek runs, the hollows and slate hills where they take coal from the ground, the hard-bitten and taciturn West Virginians were confused and worried. "That John," said an Irish-born shot-firer in the Kanawha coalfields, "he be the greatest man of the 20th Century, but I be damned if we'uns can figure him out this time ... I think John be a thinkin' o'hisself...
...years, China's commercial airlines - built and operated with the help of American personnel- had flown passengers and cargo through every kind of weather, across a land whose ground communications, always bad, were increasingly disrupted by civil war. Recently, the airlines' main job has been retreat: month after month, they flew harried Nationalist ministers from city to city in flight from advancing Reds. Last week, in one of the slickest coups of the civil war, the Communists grabbed the better part of the Nationalist-owned airlines...
...Gold Coasters ran out of steam and three first string players at the end of the season, but still have a powerful ground attack paced by co-captain Rog Davis...
...holes for fullback Rick Hudner; downfield blocking is probably the most crisp in House football, and halfbacks Pete Reiner and Jim Rossiter gallop around the ends in the style of Princeton's Dick Kazmaier. Cabot also can work in his own passing game, on those infrequent times when the ground attack bogs down. Defensively, the Elephants need only point to the puny scoring record of the opposition...