Word: mounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...change-of-pace pitch or slow ball, only a curve ("which I invented myself") and a fast ball ("which I hope some day to be as good as Feller"). Because Honkbal is played on soccer fields, Hannie has never had the advantage of pitching from the raised (15 in.) mound, but since equipment is scarce in The Netherlands, he has usually had the advantage of pitching with a grimy, hard-to-see ball...
...Flood Control District finally decided to try an experiment. Last year its engineers pumped 100 million gallons of fresh water into the salted gravel under Manhattan Beach. Observation wells drilled alongside showed that the fresh water did not mix much with the salt, but forced it away, forming a mound of freshwater gravel. The sea water still seeped inland around the mound, like a stream flowing around a rock, but at that one point it was stopped...
...miles outside of New Haven, sitting like the saucer of a giant teacup, lies the Yale Bowl. From the outside it is unimpressive. There is no mighty iron fence nor massive concrete sides to mark it at a distance, but only a mound of shrubs with hollow portals peeking...
...strange sacred pots, 75 of them, along with baskets of skulls and bundles of human bones. As they laid down these sacred deposits, the villagers built great fires and tossed into them dozens of newly dead bodies. Other victims were buried unburned. Before the pious orgy was over, the mound contained 50 skulls and perhaps 100 whole or partly cremated bodies. When their frenzy had passed, the villagers moved away. No later mound in the region has yielded sacrificed bodies and such elaborate ritual pottery. One such experience was enough; their bloody religion from across the sea never flourished...
...Schliemann set out for Asia Minor to make his boyish dream come true. In defiance of scholarly opinion, relying solely on Homer's descriptions, Schliemann chose the mound of Hissarlik as the place to start digging. And the digging proved the professionals wrong, the amateur right-almost too right, for instead of one city, Schliemann found nine within the mound, one on top of the other. Which one was Troy...