Word: embeddedness
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The Mecca of today bears little resemblance to that of the seventh century. It is a rather small town embedded in a range of harsh volcanic mountains. Modern tall buildings dwarf older houses, and the markets wind along narrow streets and alleys. In the heart of the city lies the...
In 1924 Raymond Dart, the South African anthropologist, found a startlingly different skull embedded in a piece of limestone from a quarry at Taung?Tswana for "place of the lion"?about 120 kilometers (75 miles) north of Kimberley. Dart determined that the skull had come from a five-year...
The fate of the treaty in the U.S. is less certain. Commitment to a U.S.-controlled canal is deeply embedded in popular sentiment and skillfully exploited by such conservative Republican Senators as Strom Thurmond of South Carolina and Jesse Helms of North Carolina. Helms flaunts a recent poll of 1...
Motherwell's work, as he never tires of repeating, is an art of subjects. His paintings come out of life and feed back into it; in no sense are they pure abstractions. He has always had a liking for "natural" colors, ones that look as though they have been...
Playing at number three for the Crimson, freshman Jim Dales netted a 36 hole total of 159. Dave Paxton, a laconic Kentuckian, was hitting the ball sweetly during his morning round of 75 but ballooned to a costly 87 the second time around. Jon Chase strung round of 85 and...