Word: knoll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About 4850 B.C., 300-odd human beings, small-boned and slender, settled on a grassy knoll in a valley in northern Iraq. They and their descendants lived there 500 years. It was perhaps the most critical period in human history. The founding of that village (which anthropologists call Jarmo) may mark the point in time when the first wandering huntsmen settled down to till the soil...
...escort of motorcycle police guided the cortege of 22 black limousines to the cemetery. In the bright noon sunlight, dappling through Japanese plum trees, the casket was placed on a grassy knoll before the marble-columned mausoleum where Hearst's parents lie. Bishop Block read a poem, The Song of the River, which W.R. himself had written for his papers...
When Gibbs and Gottfried got to Da-Phuc, outermost fort on the road from the north, they found a French captain commanding final construction work of defenses he had designed. Proud of his plan, the captain showed them how he had sunk the fort in the top of a knoll so that the fireports opened only six inches above the ground. Trenches connecting its four buried corner bastions were arched over with brickwork. The lightly armed soldiers figured that if the fort were overrun, they could continue fighting from the tunnels...