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Like a person on a bicycle, Clinton must pedal forward in order to stay upright. And yet the terrain he is pedaling toward is full of pock marks, fox holes and blood...

Author: By Jacques E.C. Hymans, | Title: Clinton's Fatal Balkan Trap | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

...HAVE HEARD, the sky in Kuwait City was incredibly dark with oily black smoke and my urban surroundings were pock-marked by explosions and littered with debris, including the remains of Iraqi tanks...

Author: By Glen Meakem, | Title: Soldier Says 'Thanks' to Harvard | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

...Crimson Coach Ronn Tomassoni wasn't buying into the idea that the Garden's small dimensions and pock-marked ice surface were the primary cause for Harvard's offensive difficulties...

Author: By Daniel L. Jacobowitz, | Title: Golden Knights End an Era of Harvard Hockey | 3/11/1991 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: The Problem With `The Homeless Problem' | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Living, Dangerously, with Toxic Wastes | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

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