Word: mile
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...barely a 10 mile ride from Stamford Bridge, the home ground of Chelsea F.C., to Wembley Stadium, the proverbial "Home of Football" and the English national soccer team...
...disgust at the freshly dug track he's following. It meanders into a streambed, emerges from the other side and then stops abruptly. In just one afternoon Rait, an environmentalist with the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, will find several more such dead-end trails, ranging from a mere quarter mile to a few miles long. Not one of them goes anywhere at all. "They're cutting roads all over the place out here," he says wearily...
...from some federal protection if there is sufficient development to indicate the land is being put to use. They are thus taking to the wilderness and cutting roads across the protected acres before the government completes its formal three-year assessment of how the monument should be managed. Every mile they mark could be a mile unfettered...
...mile relay team also won, confirming its position as "the top Ivy contender for Heptagonals" in the eyes of sophomore anchor Joe Ciollo...
...retail outlets are springing up in cities across America. But to a small suburban hamlet whose downtown district could easily fit inside the walls of Harvard Yard, the coming of such a superstore provided weeks of check-out counter chit-chat. We already had three drug stores within a mile or two of each other. Each was unique: Cadman's had been in business for over sixty years. Another stocked its shelves with an impressive menagerie of stuffed animals. The third had supplied me with bottle after bottle of pink, bubble gum flavored antibiotics, prescribed for my frequent childhood...