Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...faulting his record (three for three this year) or his speed. Last year he broke the Aqueduct track record for 61 furlongs. And last week at Churchill Downs, Captain's Gig tuned up for the Derby by breezing to an eight-length victory in the seven-furlong Stepping Stone Purse...
...combat: the fear and pain and boredom, heat and rain, rare relaxation, and uneasy meetings of East and West. The Marines are genial giants running a village clinic or delivering a baby; they are stunned young men around the whimpering body of a mortally wounded child; they are stone-faced juggernauts of mechanical war evacuating bewildered civilians in helicopters, methodically incinerating their houses with flamethrowers to deprive the enemy of a hiding place...
...listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honor trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then-to learn." -The Sword in the Stone...
When Byron L. Ramsing returns this summer to Martha's Vineyard, he is in for a rude surprise. His Chilmark house, which used to be a safe 200 ft. from the cliffs overlooking the sea, is now only 80 ft. away, and the broad stone steps that were once in his backyard are now on the beach below. On the New Jersey shore, the sea has slowly devoured 50 square blocks of the town of Cape May Point, and St. Peter's by the Sea Episcopal Church, a frame structure which has already been moved three times...
...rate of 1 in. every eight years. Plans for a new bridge on the old site are already under way. And while people and cars still travel the ancient span, workmen have begun the three-year task of dismantling its 130,000 tons of granite-carefully numbering each stone so U.S. builders can solve the giant jigsaw puzzle and put it back together. In addition to the purchase price, McCulloch figures that it will cost at least another $3,000,000 to transport and rebuild its prize. To give the bridge a suitable setting, the company will dredge a mile...