Word: inlander
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...worst damage. Torrential rain raced ahead of the storm, giving Gulf Coast lowlands a preliminary flooding. Then, while the eye of the hurricane was still well offshore, great, white-topped waves cruised out of the sea and crashed across the land. Coastal settlements were washed out; those lying farther inland were flooded by fast-flowing water and picked to pieces by the screaming wind. Buildings that might have been strong enough to stand up to Carla's blasts blew down after wind-driven water undermined their foundations. Trees, water tanks, small boats, and assorted other projectiles swirled inland...
...important, is known as the "world's longest dry river." Along the coast, the old landowning families employ sharecroppers to raise cane, corn and cotton on relatively productive land, keep their workers bound by insuring that they are forever in debt to the plantation store. In the dry inland area, more than half of the 26 million people are regularly reduced to living on cactus flour; large numbers line the roads...
...cleared away. "My life has been backwards," he says. "Big success, retirement, and now I'm making an honest living." Starting a brand-new career three years ago at the Post-Dispatch, he has risen to the top of his profession, using as his ladder an inland newspaper that has always encouraged crusaders and viewed the nation and the world with "show me" detachment...
Blake was born the son of a salesman for the Inland Steel Co. in St. Louis. "My father always taught a Sunday school class," he recalls. "Even when we moved around-to Winnetka or Bronxville-it was never more than a month before we were members of the local Presbyterian church. We had morning prayer each day at home, and of course we said grace at meals...
...where they would make the ritual seven circuits around the shrouded monument and enter to kiss the Black Stone handed down by the Angel Gabriel to Abraham. If they took time to notice, they might have detected a change in the air. Along the six-lane highway that leads inland to Mecca from the Red Sea port of Jiddah, pilgrims were ministered to by mobile hospitals, reservoirs of ice water, and troops of Moslem Boy Scouts. In the capital of Riyadh, lights burned late in the massive ministries along the main, four-lane boulevard, and a Saudi businessman rejoiced...