Word: surly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bluegrass State might be mistaken for the moon. Both boon and bane, strip mining gouges out a third of Ken tucky's coal production, which last year reached 93 million tons worth some $500 million. The strip miners use bull dozers to flay great strips off the sur face and get at the veins beneath. This scars Appalachia's hills and flatlands with ugly detritus called overburden or spoil. As the spoil shifts and slides, the hills resound to the awful rumble of landslides shuddering down the slopes...
...Cheviot Beach" -a lonely, rocky stretch 21 miles from Holt's beach home, and one of the most dangerous beaches in the Portsea area. When the five arrived, the tide was at crest, and ugly chunks of wood and flotsam bobbed about on the sur face. "I had never seen it like that before," Mrs. Gillespie says. But Holt decided to go in anyway. "I know this beach like the back of my hand," he insisted. After all, he had been swimming there since 1926, when as an unmarried law student he began visiting Cheviot with Zara...
...occupiers, the Israelis have sur prised the Arabs by treating them in a civilized, if firm, manner. They have, in return, won the Arabs' grudging toleration, if not their full cooperation...
...vote of 32,118 to 27,190. With the money assured, the city government cannily required the foundation, as part of the final transaction, to leave the impressionists and postimpressionists on loan for the next 15 years. And Picasso himself was so touched that he announced "a little sur prise" gift from his private collection: a Rose Period oil called La Famille, two big, brand-new Picassos done in his contemporary style, and a watercolor study for his first cubist work, Les Demoiselles a"Avignon, a painting which shocked some of his fellow artists but which changed the course...
...switch caught everyone by sur prise. Makarios had raised no insurmountable objections to the agreement during his two meetings with Vance earlier in the week. Vance was so confident that matters had been settled that he had been preparing in Athens for his return flight to the U.S. When he got word of the snag, he immediately jetted back to Nicosia for a four-hour meeting with Makarios, then went off to the U.S. embassy for a few hours of sleep while Makarios huddled with his Cabinet nearly all night. The next morning the two men met again...