Word: hardiness
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...wells to halt, according to Mark Tingay, a geologist at the University of Adelaide in Australia. Lusi may eventually choke itself as mud clogs its interior plumbing. But if left to die on its own, Davies estimates that it could continue to erupt for years, and perhaps even decades. Hardi Prasetyo, deputy head of the new government team in charge of Lusi, says that his workers are now focusing on containing, rather than stopping, the mud. The current strategy includes channeling the sludge into the nearby Porong River in the hope that it will be flushed...
...Most of us have careers ahead of us, presumably doing bigger and better things," said participant John T. Hardi, deputy South American division chief for the Central Intelligence Agency...
William Gerhardi (pronounced Jer-hardi), suave novelist whose undergraduate impression of Winston Churchill is famous ("poor stuff for a grown-up man"), signed up in the Officers' Emergency Reserve. Born in St. Petersburg, he thought it "reasonable" of Russia to wish her own former Baltic provinces to remain Baltic, not German. As for himself, "my home is in darkness, my income in jeopardy, my hopes for a career non-existent." Evelyn Waugh, creator of the bright young thing, observed with suspicious blandness that "the war is an extension of our normal habits of life; fighting has been a universal...
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