Word: ground
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...Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition recently awarded it's annual Frederick Douglass Prize for the best book on slavery written this year to The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas written by Queens University of Ontario Professor David Eltis. The book was chosen for its ground-breaking scholarship showing that it was the strength and prosperity of the African nation-states, rather any weakness or poverty, that shaped the Atlantic slave trade and forced the Europeans to accommodate themselves to African customs and economics. The book also seeks to understand why Europe, the champion of individual freedom, helped...
...victim received stitches to close a wound sustained when he hit his head on the ground during the incident...
...Bargeil says he hit the victim by accident, at which point the victim fell to the ground and grabbed onto Bargeil...
...Mountain Hawks of Lehigh relied on their ground game, as running backs Phil Pleasant and Jamal Burcher walked all over the Cornell...
Race walker BERNARDO SEGURA was elated after crossing the finish line in an Olympic-record-beating 20-km walk. What he didn't realize is that 400 m from victory, he committed his third "loss of continual contact with the ground"--an automatic out. Officials failed to reach him before he took a victory lap with the Mexican flag. He was halfway through an interview before getting the news...