Word: rimming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some low ridges, what seemed to be an eroded crater and a landscape littered with rocks. Some of the more distinctively shaped rocks were promptly given names like "Midas muffler" and "Dutch shoe" by scientists. On the horizon, about two miles away, was a ridge that could be the rim of a large impact crater from which many of the rocks may have been ejected. Scientists estimated that some of the boulders were as big as 12 ft. in diameter, large enough to have overturned the Viking lander had it put down in their midst...
...massive concentration of tanks, transport, bulldozers, communications vehicles and Jeeps. Along the route I saw at least 200 tanks, and no doubt many more were parked beyond my vision. About a dozen miles from Beirut, I walked to a point where a phalanx of tanks lined the rim of a hill, their guns pointing down to another resort town, Bhamdoun. A Syrian officer stood atop one of the tanks, and, as we talked, machine guns mounted on the next tank began blazing away. Leftist forces still held Bhamdoun, and the Syrians were shooting at any suspicious movements to keep them...
Clay chose instead to learn about the nature of his own nature by climbing the island's sacred 10,000-foot active volcano, watch the Pacific and the horizon and all the rest of the world curve away from atop the crater's rim, and then spend three days lost in the jungle searching for a path down before travelling on alone to Java. Dick and Jerry wrote novels. King discovered the hallucinogenic sunsets of Kuta Beach, and chose to spend most of the rest of the year on his own considering interior horizons and the curious capacities of memory...
...ever find yourself in the audience at either of these dens, dropping peanut shells on the floor and putting a poptop back into the beercan before you slurp up the suds oozing around the rim, Jimmy Buffett may just be standing right in front of you, along with the pedal steel you've been looking for. Jimmy Buffett is a semi-permanent escapee, you see, whose major claim to fame as far as the Southern vocabulary goes is his invention and frequent usage of the phrase "commode-hugging drunk," which comes in real handy on recriminating mornings replete with description...
Some political analysts believe that the growth of population and economic power in the South and Southwest portends a dominance of Sunbelt conservatism in the nation. One proponent of the theory is Social Historian Kirkpatrick Sale, author of Power Shift, The Rise of the Southern Rim and Its Challenge to the Eastern Establishment. Sale argues that the Sunbelt is becoming the increasingly influential repository of "the three Rs"-rightism, racism and repression...