Word: swathes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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German spies and student demonstrations don't sweep through Cambridge often; everyday life in the pipe-filled tunnels is much less glamorous. Tall tales and legends aside, most undergraduates rarely come into contact with the network. Some sharp observers, however, will note that through early fall, a swath of grass in the Yard stays green longer than the rest, and through winter that patch melts away its cover of snow and remains in sight. These few will see beneath the legend of the Harvard tunnels...
...through the pristine glass there is that great swath of the United States, a land that can barely be glimpsed from the interstate highway or sensed from 35,000 ft. To be sure, the view from Bedroom A or the dome car exposes every automobile graveyard, garbage dump, trailer park, parking lot, drive-in, burger joint, shopping mall, sewage plant, forsaken factory, slum and rural hovel in the unwritten guidebook of desecrated America. Its obverse, as the Crescent weaves its whistling way south toward summer, is a varied, often startlingly beautiful landscape of feathery woods and forests, roses and rhododendrons...
Harvard's Alex Vik carded an 86, marred by a ten on the 16th hole. His drive bounded into the woods, putting him "in jail." He took a lusty cut with his second shot, decimating a colony of beetles and cutting a yard-long swath through a dandelion patch in the process. The stung ball scooted into the clear, hit a rock and ricocheted skyward, landing well behind the bewildered...
...winds forced movement of the course to the end of Lake Onondaga and a channel in front of the Syracuse boathouse. The rowers huddled against the bitter cold before the race but at the gun the Harvard juggernaut cut a swath through the choppy waters and never looked back...
...hated "line" is a 400,000-volt power transmission cable. After a two-year court fight, the line is beginning to slice a 160-ft.-wide swath through the dairy and grain country. It is supposed to run 427 miles, from the lignite coal mines of North Dakota to the vicinity of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Ironically, it is being constructed by two rural power cooperatives-the very sort of company that barely 40 years ago was warmly welcomed by farmers whose remote homesteads had been bypassed by the electrical revolution...