Word: holing
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...mountains, there is no way to lift your body and take it down. The men who are fighting on those ridges know that they are in a hole from which they cannot come out alive. There are a rare few like me who somehow by fate got the chance to leave the mountains...
Coober Pedy is Aboriginal for "white fella down a hole." Opals were discovered here, lying on the surface, by a 14-year-old boy back in 1915. He was looking for water but instead kept tripping over the "floaters," as surface opals are called. Few floaters are seen now; the opals are all underground, embedded in deep layers of soft sandstone. This whole area, millions of years ago, was ocean floor. So it is relatively easy to mine, and since opal mining is entirely an individual business, like California gold mining back in 1849, it has never been industrialized...
...smaller breasts like mine. If I hadn't found such a radiologist, I might very well have lost a chunk of my breast for no reason. Instead I had a quick, simple procedure. Fully conscious, with only a local anesthetic, I lay facedown on an examining table with a hole in it for my left breast. Then my physician, Dr. Joshua Gross of New York's Beth Israel Hospital, a leading expert on Mammotomes, located the calcifications with a digital X ray. Through an incision no bigger than a match head, he inserted a hollow probe. Within minutes the suspicious...
...Bedford, along with Nantucket, which is accessible by ferry from Woods Hole ($25 round trip on Bonanza), were the two largest whaling ports in the United states before the decline of the industry in the second half of the 19th century...
...Bedford, along with Nantucket, which isaccessible by ferry from Woods Hole ($25 roundtrip on Bonanza), were the two largest whalingports in the United states before the decline ofthe industry in the second half of the 19thcentury...