Word: marooned
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...Little maroon and yellow "UMD I" signs are plastered all over town...
They are hardly over-whelming--little yellow signs, maybe a foot square that read "UMD I" in crude maroon letters...
Defensively, the Maroon and Gold are led by junior Norm Maclver (12 46--58) and its standout goalie, sophomore Rick Kosti, who boasts a goals against average of 3.18 and a save percentage...
...heavyset men now climbing into the ring are veterans. Bill Howard, in his 40s, from Milwaukee, is portly, tough and tanned, in maroon robes tied with a golden cord. He shows his anger with a slow, bull-like shaking of the head as he encounters "Cowboy" Scott Casey, in his late 30s, a hulking former hairdresser from Amarillo, wearing a white hat and boots stamped with red patches in the shape of the state of Texas...
...controversy centers on ships like the maroon-hulled Vulcanus I, a converted oil tanker, and its newer sister, Vulcanus II, which operate in the North Sea. Both of them are owned by Waste Management Inc., an Illinois-based disposal Goliath. Over the past decade, Vulcanus I has conducted test burns in the North Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. Vulcanus II was set to begin commercial operations in the gulf, where the ship's giant furnaces were to reduce thousands of tons of liquid poisons to harmless vapor. To broaden the burn program, the Maritime Administration backed...