Word: sloping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About a half a mile from the industrial monolith, the campus of 2,500-student Lehigh University, stands above and apart from Bethlehem, on the steep slope of South Mountain...
Abandoning their tea, the prospectors followed Chiwaro to the place where he had found the rock. They worked carefully up the slope, pushing the veld grass gently aside with their hands, until they struck an outcrop of pegmatite and schist. It was the end of their search. Embedded in the soft, weather-beaten rock were emerald clusters, green and unmistakable...
...last message the Canadian sent. Minutes later the walkie-talkie man gasped that Colonel Flint had been hit, and lay unmoving on the slope. Although no more than 20 paces away, U. N. observers radioed that the fire was too heavy to permit any rescue attempt. Hours later, under cover of darkness, they found Colonel Flint's body, and near by the bodies of four Israeli police...
...emergency Cabinet meeting to deal with the second uprising against the Fourth Republic in twelve days. Early next morning Pflimlin's tape-recorded voice boomed out from the radios of France condemning the Corsican insurgents as "a handful of rebels" who "are seeking to drag us down the slope which leads to civil...
...stalked off up the mountainside to watch the races. At the first turn Vag seated himself upon a tree stump and watched a white Jaguar roar up the slope. The car was driven by a girl...