Word: porousness
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...Porous Defense...
...much easier to defend. Israel's new frontier with Jordan runs for 60 miles rather than 180 and, equally important, it runs along the Jordan River rather than through a twisting, tortured no man's land of hills and scrub. The old Negev Desert border stretched a porous 160 miles. With the addition of Sinai, Israel's underbelly is now bounded by open water, save for the 107-mile stretch facing the Suez Canal. Israel's classic military victory on the Golan Heights of Syria has driven the Syrians well out of shelling reach...
With the backing of Interior Secretary Udall, the Smithsonian argued before the commission that the temple should be erected outdoors on the banks of the Potomac, for the benefit of the capital's 9,000,000 annual tourists. The Smithsonian maintained that the temple's porous sandstone, which is so soft a man can scratch it with his finger, could be coated with synthetic resins to protect it in the East Coast's soggy climate. The Met cited testimony indicating that any outdoor setting would reduce the temple to a pile of sand and stone stumps...
...visitors went ahead, 3-2, on two shots that made their way through a porous Harvard defense, but soon relinquished the lead. After Marty Cain flattened an unidentified Brown attackman, Kilkowski scooped up the loose ball, ran the length of the field, and bounced the ball into the right-hand corner...
...always, spring training wound up with a flurry of activity. To cement their porous infield, the New York Yan kees purchased Dodger John Kennedy, who made only eight errors in 125 games last year; Kennedy committed two booboos in his first game for the Yanks. The Baltimore Orioles shipped Pitcher Steve Barber, a 20-game winner in 1963, back to the minors; the New York Mets astonished practically everybody by farming out veteran Centerfielder Johnny Lewis, their No. 1 hitter (at .387) during the Grapefruit League season, replacing him with Rookie Don Bosch-who batted .147 this spring...