Word: mounded
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DIED. KEN BRETT, 55, former major league baseball pitcher and brother of Hall of Famer George Brett; of brain cancer; in Spokane, Wash. One month after his 19th birthday, in 1967, Brett became the youngest pitcher to take the mound in a World Series game--a record that still stands--when he threw 1 1/3 scoreless innings for the Boston Red Sox against the St. Louis Cardinals...
Five villagers agreed to do the job. Using a tangan, a crude shovel with a specially curved blade and an extra-long handle, they probed deep into the earth around the mound, extracting core samples and examining the dirt for indicators such as traces of charcoal, which the ancients packed around tombs to ward off humidity. Locating a likely spot, the villagers lighted the fuse on a 110-lb. lump of homemade dynamite and blew a hole in the middle of a wheat field. Having blasted their way to a spot near the top of the tomb, they donned...
...Near Empress Dou's burial mound, raiders use a TANGAN to take soil samples, which indicate the exact location of the 131 ft. by 131 ft. tomb, buried deep underground...
...upon the grislier works of Pier Pasolini in the coming years, Kill Bill: Volume One will be the most violent film you ever see. The squirmy ear-carving of director Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs was but a light appetizer to Kill Bill’s sanguineous mound of beef tartar. Countless appendages are whittled off from their previous proprietors, who all too frequently remain alive long enough to writhe about, expelling their share of the hundred gallons of fake blood Tarantino supposedly utilized for in the film’s production...
...Democratic contenders face a full count from the Evil Empire in the White House, with Bush on the mound and regime change at stake. Rather than hope for a walk and watch the called third strike, as they have now for 26 months, Democrats need only size up the trite Republican pitch spinning their way—and come up swinging...