Word: jaggedness
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The ex-President tired visibly toward the end of the trip; yet in Kweilin, a city famous for its landscapes of jagged hills and misty waterways, he was able to walk up some 300 yds. of steep stone steps to visit the Reed Flute Cave, apparently with no ill effects...
The opening ceremonies were fairly innocuous, sometimes stirring but mostly boring. The contingents of athletes marched in wearing their hotdog winter stretchsuits littered with racing stripes. The mayor of Sapporo, Japan, where the 1972 Winter Olympics were held, downed a gulp of brandy with the "jolly burgomeister" of Innsbruck And...
The big fields of color in Still's paintings do not directly represent the spaces of the Midwest, any more than the jagged profiles and vertiginous falls and splits of color represent the Rockies. Yet the fundamental American sense of landscape-vast space conferring freedom-is unmistakably there. Cataracts...
A jail official on his rounds spotted the ominous signs around 9 p.m. in cell block 7: jagged tiles - handy for weapons - missing from a bathroom wall and menacing whispering between cells. Then, recalls another official, Deputy Assistant Warden Roy Caldwood: "All hell broke loose."
The methods and weapons employed are not always officially approved. Some guards are trained to scatter jagged miguelitos (twisted nails) from armored cars to block off escape routes. Private security vehicles sometimes carry flamethrowers. "Some agencies use all the methods of the guerrillas," says Agrelo. "But the best weapon is...