Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Next is the battle of the Alamo. Several people in the crowd try to involuntarily catch their breath. The scene shows Colonel Travis ("I shall never surrender or retreat... VICTORY OR DEATH.") drawing his famous line on the ground which his men were supposed to walk across if they were going to stay and fight. The wounded Jim Bowie is directing two aides to carry him and his cot over the line. Davy Crockett is there. All 187 defenders were killed in the next day's battle, but they brought down over 1600 of the Mexican soldiers...
...child. In the wax, Earp's side is coming out on top. There are four men on his side and three on the other. One of the others is already dead. One of them is wounded and about to get it again as he tries to shoot from the ground. Wyatt himself is in the process of drilling the third guy, who, in a miracle of modern wax, is positioned on a 45 slant to the ground, falling with blood pouring out of the holes...
...reality, un-educative processes. In lectures, a professor transmits the ideas and methods of his professional discipline as efficiently as possible to the students. But the students have no opportunity to think and question. This is often true of sections too, especially when the section leader has to "cover ground...
...questions are good because they focus what students think," Miss- Hotchkiss said. "They give students more of a ground for questioning when they go for interviews...
...almost immedately, a pitchout by quarterback Frank Champi fell to the ground and was recovered by a B. U. lineman. The Terriers had earned a reputation in their first two games as a team that capitalized on mistakes by the opposition, and Saturday they started a scoring drive on this Harvard miscue...