Word: jaggedness
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With flashbacks, brief jagged confrontations, and dirty language - all of them daring deviations from stodgy stylistic norms in Stalin's time - Maximov tells how the rebellious Seryosha lives as an outlaw on the seamy side of the Soviet establishment, first stealing vegetables to sell on the black market, then...
Somehow they do. The homesick hound relentlessly follows his nose, poor old Bodger staggers after him, and the cat, snagging a field mouse here and a partridge there, has the time of his lives. At last, after three weeks of battling bears, eluding lynxes and floundering in raging rivers, the...
Still, the torn edges of the flesh, and the jagged ends of blood vessels, nerves and tendons had to be trimmed back. To give themselves room, the Chinese surgeons did something that their American colleagues consider very clever. They cut back the bones on each side of the break for...
Since then, 17,200 men from 21 countries have labored and eight companies have invested $220 million to turn Nimba's jagged 111-acre summit into a massive mine. Last week huge shovels scooped Nimba's soft ore into 32-ton Haulpaks, native drilling teams dotted the mountainside...
Another unknown that worries many scientists is the lunar surface. No one knows what the moon is made of, and no one can be sure what its surface is like after a 4-billion-year bombardment by sunlight, X rays, solar particles, cosmic rays and meteorites. The moon may be...