Word: fields
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When Mormon scouts wandered through the Bear River Valley of southwestern Wyoming in the 1840s, they found oil flowing into streams and used it to grease the axles of their wagons. But it was not until 1974, when a deep pool of oil was tapped at Pineview Field outside the small town of Evanston, that the rush began...
With six candidates in the field, there was a clear possibility of a runoff, and no Portuguese was ready to count on political stability. A majority for Eanes might express a public desire in that direction, but a sympathy vote for Soares Carneiro might just as easily demonstrate that the country wanted to preserve the cohesion that the dead leader had established. As for the post of Prime Minister, there seemed to be no one ready to fill Sá Carneiro's shoes. His Deputy Prime Minister and acting successor, Diogo Freitas do Amaral, is a frosty Christian Democrat...
...Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco during the late '60s found that his patients were showing up with infections, sores and other maladies that medicine had not seen I since the 13th century. The flower children had simply unlearned centuries of civilization's experience in the field of hygiene; in their bedding, clothing and grooming they had reverted to a state of nature that Rousseau never imagined. Then, gropingly and painfully, they went about reformulating the basic rules of body maintenance: they reinvented soap and water...
Coming off a triumphant first victory over UNH, the tracksters trucked up to northern Maine looking for a sure win. The only trouble was, they started a little too late. Never traditionally strong in the sprints and field events, Harvard soon found itself trailing 21-1. With half the events over, Bates sat tight with a 30-point lead. The Crimson would literally have to sweep all the remaining events...
...spend a year as a Nieman--one of a select group whom Harvard supports for a year of education and general socializing--goes through a reeducation process of sorts. Away from the frenetic pace of the newsroom--and not permitted to engage in commercial work--the fellow studies a field that he is interested in and that might some day help his own career. For Zhao, whose work includes editing a monthly periodical of translations from the Western press (circulated to a limited number of Chinese officials) and writing a column about the current scene in the United States, that...