Word: groundful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Barnette pushed a cargo-laden stern-wheeler ten miles up central Alaska's Chena River, halted when the waters became too shallow, and established a trading post from which, with the gold rush one year later, sprang the city of Fairbanks. Barnette should have settled on higher ground...
...city's electricity, gas and telephones were knocked out. Rescue workers and airmen from Eielson Air Force Base relied upon radio communications -aided by Fairbanks' numerous "ham" operators. Some 7,000 victims were evacuated to the higher ground of the University of Alaska five miles away. About 2,500 were shuttled by air to Anchorage 260 miles to the south. Hundreds of huskies and other breeds kept by dog-loving Alaskans, left to survive on their own, raised an eerie cacophony of howls through the nights. As the dogs grew hungrier, humans had to fight them off with...
Thus far, Johnson and his aides have resisted that temptation more often than they have succumbed to it. The ground war in South Viet Nam, up to and including the call for massive air strikes by B-52 heavy bombers that fly all the way from Guam, is largely in the hands of Westmoreland and his generals. Westmoreland has had to clear with Washington such operations as thrusts into the DMZ, the shelling of North Viet Nam, the movement of U.S. troops into the precarious and populous Mekong Delta. It is in moves of that sort, and primarily...
...Pepper, however, is a legitimate hunting ground for Beatleologists, and if Tolstoy was right in saying that the key to art is the "wee bit," never was there a more artistic pop album. It is loaded with every significant little touch that the Beatles could fit into three months of recording. Under the same pressure of inspiration that throws other pop groups into violent convulsions, the Beatles remain gentle, ironic, subtle, innocent and, above...
Into a unity of color: The ploughed ground...