Word: sloping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made it appear that the plateau on top was something like a penthouse garden on the roof of a skyscraper, but such is not the case. Though arduous, the ascent to the top is far from impossible and the worst of the climb is confined to a steep sandstone slope near the top. Yet before the expedition reached its goal, Shiva Temple was touted as a "biological island" whose animal life, if any remained, must have been isolated from the "mainland" since the Ice Ages. These unknown creatures, evolving in their own way for thousands of years, would shed...
...from Franco by loosing a thunderbolt attack on the Basque defenses. A monster fleet of 63 airplanes sent bombs whistling into the suburb of Lezama, more into the trenches at strategic Lemona Mountain. After heavy artillery preparation and machine gun strafing from the air, 30 tanks lumbered up the slope followed by Rightist infantry. Announced the Insurgents: "The hill is entirely in our hands...
Last week, with every French army post along the southern slope of the Atlas doubly reinforced with new troops. Theo dore Steeg had the uncomfortable knowledge as he approached Morocco that if miraculous rain came, or if he could some how halt the advancing Blue Men. he would be a hero to the nation. Otherwise he might have to shoulder the blame for a great and bloody massacre...
...affecting greeting given me on may arrival was not a bad cordial people reflecting in may ways the character of their surroundings. I suppose our learned psychologists think more of glands than geography, but here is a people living on this lovely mountain slope, snow-rimmed Mt. Etna clear in the distance, the Mediterranean below; oranges, almonds, lemons and flowers of every variety growing in abundance--and nothing much more important to do but work their donkeys, have babies, and cheat Americans...
...Coronation bustled out to Windsor to gaze at the Royal Horse Guards in glistening breast plates and scarlet tunics, to cheer wildly as King George, Queen Elizabeth and most of the Royal Family wound out of the main gate of the Castle en route to a grassy slope nearby on the river Thames...