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...Marshall describes the tragedy of defeat. The crescendo is reached in the last 80 pages, which describe the pullout of what was left of the 2nd Division. By this time it was every man for himself. For six miles, men and vehicles ran a one-road gauntlet lined by steep hills occupied by the Chinese. The valley became a shooting gallery and a common grave. Heroism was as common as death, but heroism was not enough. What broke out of the gauntlet was perhaps the most completely smashed division in U.S. military history...
...alone. In the Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Geologist Dorsey Hager attempts to prove that Meteor Crater is nothing but an ancient sinkhole that just happened to get peppered, late in its life, by a swarm of meteorites. According to Hager, Meteor Crater started as a steep-sided dome thrust upward several million years ago by geological forces. Its rock was splintered by distortion, and water penetrated to "evaporite" (salt) beds far below it. After millions of years, the water removed a lot of this soluble stuff, leaving enormous caverns. At last the roof fell...
...best poems. Those who want the full story of his life and work must turn to one of the biographies, but A Hopkins Reader is a fine introduction to a poet's poet-and to an intellectual Christian who cut a bright, if often steep, path of his own in searching the love...
After the press conference in the ship's salon, she descended the steep gangplank, and on the pier waved a white-gloved hand to acknowledge cheers and shouts of welcome ("Benvenuta, Mrs. Luce!"). Then she and her husband Henry R. Luce, editor of TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE, got into a U.S. embassy Chrysler for the 150-mile trip to Rome. As the car wheeled into Naples' streets, a clatter of applause and cheers rose from a crowd of more than 1,000 Neapolitans who had lined the square outside the port area in hopes of catching a glimpse...
...rather steep comedown-in the end he jumps off a cliff. John, a much wiser young squire, gets home to England, where all ends with a nice, bucolic chirrup: "The kingcups and the wild daffodils were out in the water meadows; from the dovecot came the sudden passion and stir of wings." And Elfrida, the girl John left behind him, "had grown tall; under the sun she showed satin-fair...