Word: slopes
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...formless, numbing nothingness of snow and ice and haze and white fingers of sun feeling through clouds. Suddenly there was the awful crunch of hull against frozen snow and ice. The pilots grabbed for the throttles. The plane rose for an instant, settled, slid 300 feet up the slope of centuries-old ice, turned to rest on her left wing tip, stopped dead. An alert radio operator flashed...
...small the sins are, provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. In deed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one-the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without mile stones, without signposts...
...roared angrily across and up the opposite slope and came to a halt under a palm tree. Peter jumped out of the carrier and an officer from another carrier that had followed behind us ran up and said, "Peter, do you think we ought to be here...
...Crossing. Peter told the driver to go ahead, and we rumbled up the slope and headed down the other side toward the Wadi Zigzau. Abruptly we came to the brink. Across the wadi machine guns were dueling with unexampled ferocity. Below, between two banks, perhaps 50 yards across, glinted water and broken pieces of ground. It looked like an infernal death trap to enter...
...terrible scream rent the air and a concussion shook the earth. One shell after another whistled by, exploded with an ear-bursting crack on the slope...