Word: knoll
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...teeth of a shark, the talons of an eagle, the neck of an antelope and the hindquarters of an ostrich. A mythological chimera? Not at all. "I stepped down into this gulch," recounts University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno, "took 25 steps and screamed." Directly ahead, atop a sandstone knoll, lay the full skeleton of a 2-meter-long (about 6 ft.) carnivore. It proved to be the most ancient dinosaur discovered to date...
Even on a bleak, late-winter day, the little town of Clay Center, Kans., exudes all the homeyness and warmth of a Norman Rockwell painting. Tidy, freshly painted houses cover the small knoll that rises north of the town square. The homes of the middle class cost about $20,000; those of the poor are timeworn but neat. One of the tallest buildings in town is a barnlike structure built by a woman who gives baton-twirling lessons...
Madness descended. Motorcycle cops jumped curbs, machines roaring over the grass in a ballet of aimless panic. The crowd on the grassy knoll looked like it had been swept with a giant scythe. The street was empty, a stark, lifeless slab of concrete that smelled of disaster. Kennedy's motorcade had been chopped in two like a luckless centipede, the front end blown to God knew where, the rear end writhing and thrashing...
Scheim's account on this point is impressive. He cites the statements of people viewing Kennedy's motorcade in front of the fence, who felt the bullets just above their heads and even dropped to the ground to evade the shots. Moreover it was to the grassy knoll in front of the fence that police first gravitated in their search for Kennedy's assassin. If there were at least two gunmen, then it seems hard to deny that it was a group of conspirators who killed the president...
...People used to stay on campus to drink," said Knoll. "Now, they go downtown. The bars there serve anyone...