Word: slope
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hill. With frayed trousers flapping and a cumbersome flak jacket jiggling against his bare chest, he makes his way through the debris of cartridge boxes and C-ration cans. Deep, viscous red mud sucks at his boots and oozes up to his knees as he struggles down the slope. Suddenly, from high above, comes a familiar, chilling whine. "Incoming!" someone yells, and the leatherneck flattens himself in the mud. The artillery shell bursts 50 yards from him, gouging out a small crater through the slime. A breeze wafts away the cloud of smoke and detritus, the rifleman listens...
...turn base metal into gold; instead he discovered an ancient Chinese method of making porcelain. Augustus set Bottger up in a medieval castle in the cathedral city of Meissen. There the factory turned out its china until 1865, when it was moved to its present site on a slope overlooking the town. Because Meissen (pop. 47,000) is just 15 miles from Dresden, its chinaware has also come to be known as "Dresden china...
...buyers is that he has managed to remain Courreges while softening his line. Softer generally meant sexier. One bountiful mannequin almost frugged herself out of a sheer organdy miniskirt that was hitched by a strap in front to a little bolero top, cut short enough to expose the under-slope of her bosom. The gentlest touch of all: big imitation posies that were strewn over his pants, dresses, socks and, as an afterthought, incorporated into his models' hairdos. "I got up early this morning and started cutting out those flowers for the hair," said the usually shy designer, explaining...
...Communist forces, they pursued their quarry up a muddy hillside in the jungle near Dak To, seven miles from where the frontiers of Cambodia, Laos and South Viet Nam meet. The U.S. troops were led right into a torrent of machine-gun fire from 30 sandbagged bunkers atop the slope. By the time the shooting ended, 25 Americans had been killed and 35 wounded. Other Americans took the hill unopposed the next day, found nine Communist dead...
Caprice. A skier in white schusses down a slope. In his tracks comes a skier in black, firing a rifle en route. A shot hits its mark, the man in white bites the snow, and the film is off on another chapter in the further adventures of Doris Day, girl woman...