Word: sq
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tragedy began with a single vicious convulsion that rocked Italy from the tip of the southern Mezzogiorno to the Alps. At first the destruction seemed manageable, but then, slowly, the awful magnitude of the catastrophe began to emerge. Scores of communities had been leveled across 10,000 sq. mi. of the rugged southern countryside. Whole villages were obliterated. Uncounted thousands were buried in the wreckage of their homes, churches and cafes. Delayed by impassable roads, bad weather and bureaucratic ineptitude, rescue workers took 48 hours or more to reach the most isolated hamlets. Finally the digging-out gathered momentum, unearthing...
...warehouse is a monument to bureaucratic bumbling. A stroll through it stirs up visions of shattered, best-forgotten programs for the public good, and the rise and fall of federal agencies. Of course Roller doesn't see it that way. He prefers to think of his 12,000-sq.-ft. warehouse on the Iowa state fairground in Des Moines as the U.S. Government's very own garage sale...
...absorbent crust. This crust soaks up moisture coming from the lungs. During inhalation, the stored moisture is carried back into the lungs. In short, the camel saves water not in its hump but in the folds of its prodigious shnoz, which cover an area of roughly 1,100 sq. cm, vs. only 12 sq. cm for the average human...
...bumper to bumper, lights on -station wagons, Mustangs, Winnebagos from places like Indiana, North Dakota and Ohio. A couple from Florida in a rented car wait for the motorcade to begin. The husband fidgets nervously with his movie camera, anxious to get to the Trinity site, the 432 sq. mi. of desert where the world's first atomic bomb was exploded on July 16, 1945, at precisely 5:29:45 a.m., Mountain War Time. Once a year the site is opened to visitors. "We've been looking forward to this for a long time," the man says...
...troops now number 12,000 in the six northern counties, the lowest number in a decade. More noticeably, they are moving out of some conspicuous, long-embattled urban positions, where relative calm has returned. This month a 100-strong company of Scots Guards pulled out of Glassmullin, a 240-sq.-yd. compound in the middle of west Belfast's once stormy Andersons-town suburb. Once the area was a cockpit of I.R.A. activity. Now, says a young Catholic resident, "life is much more peaceful...