Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Agrarian reform, because there is nothing better than a mountain, a hut and a new dawn...
Though confusion seems to dominate the entire QRR operation, one absurd fact has emerged from beneath the mountain of tangled print-outs in the Science Center basement: Almost 200 freshman face a term on academic probation if they do not return to school early next fall and pass an exam which they failed to knock off during the past nine months...
Like a sprinter who's slow out of the blocks or a boulder resting stop a mountain, the Harvard baseball team has a lot of trouble getting started. But once they get going, the batsmen pick up speed quickly and are virtually impossible to stop...
...natural world tend not to display their knowledge, and we are far more likely to walk into a discussion about more conventionally sensational topics like politics or who is sleeping with whom than into one about whether the trout are rising or if it is a good year for mountain laurel. We know the changes in the season by the sports we identify them with and the thickness and the color of the clothes we wear. Such are the markings of the huge numbers of us who comprise this century's great urban flora...
...There was never much topsoil in the area but thick forest held the ground and rainwater tumbled down innumerable streams hidden in extremely steep valleys. But during and after mining, when the trees and topsoil are gone, water flows straight down the hillside, taking a good portion of the mountain with it. Silt has filled in many-of the area's streams, and the water table is deteriorating as previously reliable wells run dry. Martiki has built a large silt dam to capture the dirt in water running off the mining site, but even company engineers admit they...