Word: hilltop
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Just after evening prayers, the cloistered silence of the hilltop Carmelite convent in Marawi City was shattered by shouts and shrieks. Thirteen armed men barged in and took ten Filipino nuns hostage. Less than 24 hours later, another group of men grabbed Brian Lawrence, an American Protestant missionary living at the Mindanao State University near the Carmelite convent...
...Concord, N.H., Christa McAuliffe, the schoolteacher whose presence on Challenger was intended to herald a now postponed era of routine space flight, was buried on a hilltop some two miles from the high school where she taught. At Arlington National Cemetery, Navy Commander Mike Smith, Challenger's pilot, was buried with military honors on Saturday. Mission Commander Dick Scobee, a former Air Force officer, will also be interred there. The wife of Payload Specialist Gregory Jarvis asked that his remains be cremated so his ashes could be scattered into the Pacific near his home in Hermosa Beach, Calif. A military...
Toad, liberated, bounded off in the other direction. Light of heart, he took to the open road, encumbered by nothing heavier than a notebook and a pen. Pausing on a hilltop now and then, he wrote long letters to Ratty and Mole, and folded them into the shape of paper airplanes, and sent them sailing off on the breeze...
...great and brutal warrior in his day and now the monarch of all he surveys from the windswept hilltop where his hunting party has paused to rest, announces a plan he has long contemplated. It is time, he says, to renounce his power. He will divide his holdings among his three children and appoint the eldest head of his house. The youngest, the one who loves him most selflessly, resists the idea and is angrily banished from the realm. By the time the ensuing tragedy has played out, the patriarch is a madman wandering the wilderness, all three children...
...Department of Defense, which frequently asks National Guard units to assist in maneuvers, the reservists flew down to play the bad guys in the second stage of the three-month-long joint operation. With 17 tanks and 17 armored personnel carriers, they staged a mock assault on a Honduran hilltop position, sweeping toward the encampment in a 4 1/2-mile-wide front while Honduran warplanes darted overhead...