Word: sliver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foreign exchange, but they cannot live there. Instead, they commute to work by boat. Those from distant islands sail across the lagoon in dhow-like craft called buggalows, a trip that can take four hours when the wind is wrong and the current strong. Most come from Fedu, a sliver of an island barely 200 yards to the west, rowing back and forth in small, sailless dhonis...
...surround it. In California, these movements have produced a distinctive, local effect: a 600-mile fissure in the earth called the San Andreas fault, which begins in the Gulf of California, runs through most of the state, and then bends into the Pacific north of San Francisco. Furthermore, the sliver of land west of the fault, which includes Los Angeles, tends to move inexorably to the northwest, at a molasses-like average pace of an inch or so a year. Slow as that movement is, friction between the land masses causes them to stick together, and strains gradually build...
...Thomas H. Moorer describing the situation as deteriorating, though not really critical; later in the story, you say that the Communists "are trying to carve out staging areas in the northeast." Yet your accompanying map shows the Communists in almost total control of the country, with only a tiny sliver around Phnom-Penh in government hands and another relatively small area rated as "disputed." Which is correct...
...historical area known as Palestine was originally bounded to the west by the Mediterranean Sea and to the south by the Sinai Desert. To the north it included a sliver of Lebanon and to the east it stretched beyond the Jordan River. Today, Israel holds most of the territory...
Love and Will invites its readers to embark on an even more hazardous and painful course: to recover the lost sense of self by accepting the shadow of death. To May and the existentialists, life is a moving sliver of time between what was and what will be. Man, too, is ever in motion: a process rather than a product, of which all that can be said with any certainty is that it will one day end. But to this school it is the inevitability and awareness of death that defines life and liberates the human will...