Word: miles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...equatorial sand and coral nourishing coconut palms, breadfruit and pandanus trees. But on the bird-shaped island of Betio at the end of the string, the scars of war may not be erased for 100 years. Surprising evidence still remains of the ghastly battle fought on the half square mile of all but forgotten real estate...
...morning last week, 99 coal miners on the midnight-to-8-a.m. "cateye" shift were working the rich bituminous veins of the Consolidation Coal Co.'s No. 9 mine in northern West Virginia. Suddenly, deep in the earth, an explosion thundered through the eight-mile-long labyrinth of shafts and tunnels. Shock waves rippled outward for miles, jolting the Marion County mining community into frightened wakefulness. At daybreak, thick clouds of greasy black smoke billowed 150 ft. into the grey morning...
...panicked crowd, a nine-year-old boy screamed: "I saw a hand flying in the air. I saw a head rolling in the street." So fierce was the blast that it set fire to half a dozen shops and a score of cars, and shattered windows half a mile away...
Sophomore Dave Pottetti led the Harvard effort yesterday, as he surged to the front of the large field early and held his position over the six-mile Van Cortlandt Park course to cop 23rd place. Pottetti thus became the second runner in Harvard history to gain All-American recognition, awarded to the top 25 finishers in the National Collegiate meet...
Pottetti was the only Crimson runner who managed to escape the crush of the crowded field. Keith Colburn finished 69th after running an uneven race. He fell back and then spurted forward severaltimes. The course, a mile longer than the usual intercollegiate distance, probably hindered the speedy Colburn as much as it did anyone...