Word: eurasian
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...night and Oswald took home less pay than that in a month, he began appearing at Atsugi with one of the Queen Bee's prettiest hostesses. When he was assigned temporarily to Iwakuni, a U.S. air base 430 miles from Tokyo, Oswald was seen with an attractive Eurasian woman. "She was much too good-looking for Bugs [Oswald]," said one Marine...
...hold your breath, but they'll be back...After their Eurasian tour. And the Midwest...
...Peacock Spring, Rumer again evidences the profound understanding of children that she showed in The River and An Episode of Sparrows. Two adolescent English girls, Una and Halcy on, are called out to Delhi by their envoy father - only to discover that they are chaperones to his Eurasian fiancee. At first the book evokes the formal, secluded India of the diplomats: banks of flow ers, servants, gardeners, even a boy to beat dew from the lawn. It is a world of riding, parties and ease. Then Una and Ravi, a young Indian poet, fall in love - and the India...
...friction sometimes temporarily locks them in place, causing stresses to build up near their edges. Eventually the rock fractures, allowing the plates to resume their motion. It is that sudden release of pent-up energy that causes earthquakes. Off Japan, for instance, the Pacific plate is thrusting under the Eurasian plate, causing the deep-seated quakes characteristic of the Japanese archipelago. In California, along the San Andreas Fault, two great plates are sliding past each other. The sliver west of the fault, which is located on the Pacific plate, is moving toward the northwest. The rest of the state...
...Chinese have good reason to be vigilant. Many of their people live in vulnerable adobe-type, tile-roofed homes that collapse easily during tremors. And the country shudders through a great number of earthquakes, apparently because of the northward push of the Indian plate against the Eurasian plate. Says Press: "It is probably the one country that could suffer a million dead in a single earthquake...