Word: raggedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With a tall, slender trunk and a ragged umbrella of drooping green leaves, it looks like a mimosa. But the tropical Leucaena leucocephala is a bit different from other trees: in tropical climates it grows as high as 65 ft. in five years. That makes it a prime candidate for...
With substitutes mingling freely and both teams allowing their styles of play to become increasingly ragged, the lead stayed at about 32 points for the remainder of the game.
Visionary ineloquence has a lot to do with native American culture, being woven into the American sense of the epic-and in painting, Still is its living example. His entire output is a repudiation of the cult of the "well-made picture." From the beginning, Still's art-unlike...
As their plane neared Phnom-Penh, Philips and O'Shea observed that there was practically no cultivated land. "I've been flying light aircraft for a long time," Philips said, "and I've never seen a countryside more devoid of people." There were few signs of life...
"We know that there's so much conservatism in this area, we do stop and ask ourselves safety questions again," Otto Harling. director of MIT's nuclear research laboratory, said yesterday. "We're not near the ragged edge at all as far as safety is concerned."