Word: pocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lean, pock-marked man got to talking about the food in jail. It isn't bad in Concord Penitentiary; they give you half a chicken on Sundays. But the South Shore, now--that was the worst...
...vast site could be on Mars. Hills and canyons are denuded. The great dirt expanses where steel drums are buried dwarf the bulldozers and moon-suited workers. Dozens of deep pools of dark, still liquids, interconnected by a web of white pipes running uphill and down, pock the landscape. Oily sludge is stirred into the ground. A tanker truck squirts full blast into a waste pond. With its tidy system of interlacing roads and sharply etched contours, the dump is as neat as a map and profoundly ugly...
Last week's cave-in left a D-shaped crater about 60 ft. wide, 150 ft. long and between 10 and 30 ft. deep. Although apparently no radiation had leaked, 14 workers emerged with broken bones and lacerations. Craters from previous underground nuclear tests pock the desert floor elsewhere on the 1,350-sq.-mi. site. But officials said they had had no reason to expect such a result in the mesa because it is made up of hardened volcanic ash and granite. In the past 20 years, the Government has exploded 45 nuclear devices with no ill effects...
...official who had gotten caught behind the play blew his whistle when he lost sight of the pock--when it disappeared under Brady's glove. And by the time he arrived the wily netminder had pulled it back over the goal line. No goal. Big argument. Still not goal...
...following predictions for 1984 were unearthed yesterday between two bricks on the south side of Adams House B entry by workmen scouring away the last marks left by ivy and scaffolds. Pock-marked and grimy, illegible in spots, the text has been reconstructed as follows...