Word: steeped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nicosia, the village is centuries away in time. To reach it, one travels four miles along a rutted road off the main asphalt highway and then some two miles over goat trails before the cluster of tile-roofed houses is dis covered crowded between a dry watercourse and a steep mesa of grey rock...
...almost vertical precipice; his speed shot up to 60 m.p.h., his skis chattered, and the wind whistled through the ear holes in his crash helmet. Finally Zimmermann was in the homestretch, zipping through the Velodrome, a 400-yd. series of banked interconnecting turns, and on down the last, steep traverse, caroming off a final bump-and flying across the finish line in midair. Time...
When placed just right, it throws most of the rubble over the lip of a steep-sided hole. A 100-kiloton shot should be placed 600 ft. below the surface, while a one-megaton shot calls for a depth...
Brazilians like to think that their country is so big that no abyss could possibly hold it. They may be right. With half of South America's people and nearly half of its area, Brazil is huge, rich, and living on the steep sides of an abyss...
...Algiers. It was a sporadic struggle, and after four days it subsided. Except for an Algerian plane that bombed and strafed a Moroccan town some 200 miles away, the war consisted mostly of sniping and artillery salvos, exchanged over a no man's land of rocky ridges, steep ravines and huge boulders jutting out of the desert sand...