Word: mounded
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...higher levels of the mound, the Peabody team has discovered evidence that the community survived far beyond the neolithic era. Higher still are the remains of a fortified Persian city built in approximately 400 B.C. Lemberg-Karlovsky suspects that it is the ancient city of Carmania, which Alexander the Great conquered without shedding a drop of blood in 325 B.C. Although his theory is as yet unproven, the Harvard anthropologist points out that the teeth of elephants, animals uncommon to the area but regularly used for military transportation by Alexander, have been unearthed in the top of the mound...
Uncommon Elephants. Some 1,700 miles and 50 centuries removed from the Sardis dig, the Peabody group discovered a far different trove of relics and artifacts. At the base of the mound they are excavating lie the remains of a neolithic community that thrived as early as 5500 B.C. The find upsets earlier theories, which held that neolithic man had never ventured into such inhospitable surroundings. And unlike other neolithic settlements, the Peabody dig is surrounded by remnants of a mammoth wall, 7 ft. high and 20 ft. thick. Behind it the archaeologists have uncovered a series of tiny chambers...
Certain that the powerhitting Tigers would be looking for fastballs and swinging freely, Gibson shrewdly mixed up his pitches, alternating sliders and slow curves with his "hummer." By the end of the eighth inning, 14 Tigers had gone down on strikes. When Gibson took the mound in the ninth, only one strikeout stood between him and Sandy Koufax's World Series record. He got that, and more. Detroit Outfielder Al Kaline nailed futilely at a fastball. First Baseman Norm Cash missed a slider by a mile. Then, with a final flourish, Gibson slipped another slider past Outfielder Willie Horton...
Detroit manager Mayo Smith will send Mickey Lolich to the mound today to face Cardinal pitcher Nelson Briles as the Tigers scramble to deadlock the series...
Mutual Irritation. McLain has not had a losing season since. He was 20-14 in 1966, 17-16 last year. But if he had matured on the mound, he still had his problems off it. It was a regular occurrence for an angry McLain to bash his eyeglasses against the dugout wall (which is one reason why he now wears contacts). In Baltimore, when he was taken out of a game, he threw the ball at his manager and tossed his glove at the dugout. His control that day was so bad that the ball sailed over the dugout roof...