Word: terrains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impeccable Mississippi lineage (his great-grandfather was wounded in the charge at Gettysburg) was captain of a National Guard unit that was federalized. The other day we were standing on the back porch of my bungalow on the fringes of the campus. He gazed out toward a beautiful wooded terrain. "This was where we dug in," he said. "This was the left flank of our perimeter. We went all the way up to the law school." What impressed him the most, he said, was that the country boys under his command were against everything Meredith was trying...
...frenzy people. The wealth and breadth of the New Jerseyan's songs forced the packed crowds to think and feel and suffer and contemplate as well as celebrate. Springsteen sent his crowds careening down his carefully detailed highways and turnpikes at varying speeds and over plenty of rough terrain. This artist refused to click on cruise control...
...meet, field at Van Cortlandt Park. Columbia's home course, featured several significant surprises. Among these was the performance of yardling Paul Gompers, who conquered the unfamiliar terrain to finish first for Harvard. The Crimson pack, comprising Gompers, sophomore Peter Jelley. Felix "Rough Rider" Rippey, and Paul McNulty, stormed through the opposition to place 2-3-5-6. Harvard depth in the top ten rounded out by senior Bob Higgins, secured a Crimson triumph despite Columbia's first place and Penn's fourth place finishes...
...beautiful to a botanist or an agronomist, but it's difficult to show to the average person pictorially," says Morrill. "The beauty is in the details, not the overall look of the land." James Balog, who specializes in nature photography, was stumped at first by the arid terrain of the 280 acres near the Keyhole Reservoir in Wyoming. Then, on a hunch, he waited for nightfall, when a rising moon provided an intriguing mix of shadow and light. The result, like the five other pictures chosen for the story, shows none of the second thoughts, false starts and doubts...
From this point on, there are no paved roads, only desert track. The terrain increasingly becomes more barren, and I begin to appreciate the meaning of the old saying "hot as hell." The first battle has left its marks on the desert. One has no difficulty imagining the screams of dying men, for there are still bodies all around, partially covered now by the drifting sand. Most of the dead are Iranian soldiers, caught in a trap from which they could not escape. The Iraqis pretended to retreat, drawing the Iranian forces into what an Iraqi colonel describes...