Word: lines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the news hit, the telephone operators in Arco's one-room exchange above the Dee Hotel plugged in every line in Butte County, ringing telephones all up & down the Big Lost River Valley. A man from Pocatello, who had just been offered a one-story building for $10,000, walked across the street to look at another site. When he got back, he found the price had jumped to $17,500. Soon, jalopies were pounding into town and Arco's streets were jammed with jubilant wheat farmers and ranchers, shouting, cheering and recklessly counting their future wealth...
Maritain drew a sharp line between science, concerned with exploring the material world, and philosophy, or "wisdom" and the reasoned conviction, dating back to Plato, that the foundations of morality are fixed and immutable...
...never a strong contender. Going into the stretch, three horses were still ahead of him and they stayed ahead. Out in front by eight lengths at the finish line was a rank outsider (66 to 1) named Russian Hero...
...Line-Bucker...
...Rats," a melting pot of Britons, Australians, Indians, Free French, New Zealanders and others, were never defeated in battle after Monty took command. His method sounded simple: refuse to move until every detail of the battle plan is in place; then slug it out to the finish-chiefly with line bucks but with an end run when necessary. To a flashy quarterback like Rommel, such tactics must have seemed relentlessly dull, relentlessly successful...