Word: terrain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity, the rugged Van Cortlandt Park course may cause as much trouble as the opposition. The five mile course follows an extremely hilly route with very rough terrain within the first two miles and a self-explanatory "Cemetery Hill" not far from the finish...
...immense green stretches of vista, the tall poplar rows iridescent against the sky, the sensual green of the sunbathed leaves--and, then, the sudden blue swathe of the indescribable Loire, broad and slow and stately--moving with easy grandeur through the ancient terrain" seem hard to read. His lovers often speak in terms of "Whooooosh," "Buffle, Buffle," and "Squuunch," which are things you would have overheard through thin bedroom walls in the hotels of New York, Paris and Barcelona, had you followed their jet-paced trek...
...revolutionaries have chosen their GHQ well. With three airports and a mazelike coastline of winding waterways, Greater Miami is a plotter's playground for its terrain alone. What makes it paradise are the cops, many of whom make less than $300 a month and are in the market for a little extra spending money. Rebels admit privately that the officers "give us the vista gorda"-ihe blank, unseeing eye. Nor do the police play favorites. Three Dade County deputy sheriffs junket down to Batista's Cuba, come home bragging openly that "it didn't cost a cent...
...diplomats of the great powers back up their scientists, the earth in a few years will be thinly dotted with observation stations, internationally controlled, packed with sensitive instruments, and each manned by 30-odd scientists and technicians. Most of the stations will be on level terrain, and as far as possible from cities, railroads and heavily traveled highways. Their purpose: to detect clandestine tests of nuclear explosives...
...study of love since Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. In the first volume, Justine (TIME, Aug. 26, 1957), Author Durrell, 46, brilliantly evoked the city of Alexandria, which has festered for 2,000 years between the sun-sparkling Mediterranean and the Egyptian desert. Balthazar covers the same terrain and time span as the first. It is as if the reader were making a return train journey through a landscape he had just crossed-only now he is sitting on the opposite side of the car and everything looks different...