Word: jaggedness
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Over the jagged rim of the Atlas Mountains, which cut diagonally across the bulge of northwestern Africa, live the Tuaregs, fiercest of North African tribesmen. Known as the Blue Men, the Tuaregs swath their bodies in robes of cheap indigo-dyed cotton that dyes their skins a permanent blue color...
Off to the rugged Sespe Valley in the wild back country of California's Ventura County one day last week motored a Los Angeles Times newshawk, a photographer and Sidney B. Peyton, Fillmore citrus grower and able amateur ornithologist. Up and up for a mile they climbed a great...
Familiar to almost every schoolboy is the Arabian Nights tale of the deadly lodestone island which drew the iron nails and bolts from passing ships, causing them to be wrecked on its jagged cliffs. Last week one G. H. Gray. Lloyd's agent at Bridlington, England, declared that he...
Investigators have at last got a glimmering of what causes cancer. Some people in herit a susceptibility to the disease. But they do not develop cancer unless some susceptible part of the body is unduly irritated by: 1) carcinogenic chemicals, 2) physical agents (X-rays, strong sun light, repeated abrasions...
A real Irish stew of a book, Army Without Banners has a smoky flavor, is spudded with hunks of lyrical description, plenty of jagged bones and gristle of realism, and enough meat to go round. Author O Malley has not piled on his horrors as he might: more than once...