Word: checkerboard
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With the land in question a checkerboard ownership of Navajo, other private landholders and the U.S. government, the ultimate fate of the mine may depend on who wins jurisdiction in court. Regardless, the Navajo syllables To eii be iina at e (Water is life) have become fighting words in Crownpoint...
There are long family-style tables arranged in neat rows and more private four-person booths. And there are wide red and black stripes painted on the walls, projecting a geometric, checkerboard atmosphere...
...women is not ending: "If the Citadel thinks it can solve the problem through Shannon's leaving, they're dead wrong." Don't tell that yet to the cadets. At the first word that Faulkner was going, many of them cheered, honked car horns and took to a checkerboard-patterned quadrangle to perform triumphant push-ups. Maybe it was heat of all kinds that knocked Faulkner out of the Citadel last week. What no one agrees upon is just what kind of heat mattered most...
...still was not in the cards this morning. After grabbing some cereal with his hands, he began kicking the box, scattering little round corn puffs across the room. Next he turned his attention to the TV set, or rather, the table supporting it. The table was covered with a checkerboard Con-Tact paper, and Dusty began peeling it off. Then he became intrigued with the spilled cereal and started stomping it to bits. At this point his mother interceded. In a firm but calm voice she told her son to get the stand-up dust pan and broom and clean...
...stupid that he doesn't know his a -- -- from a musket (earliest citation, 1862), his elbow, a hole in the ground, a stalk of bananas, a hot rock, Mammoth Cave, a hole in the wall, third base, his left foot, pork sausage, the back side of a checkerboard, ice cream or a pitchfork...