Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Anchorage lies at the top of Cook Inlet, on the edge of a plain; the city has few buildings tall enough to contend with the open sky. Only the steeply-rising mountains nearby are large enough really to hold your vision, and they draw it up their rough slopes to that sky, a sky that is so dominating that it reminds you, even in the daytime, that it is the beginning of space, and not just the end of earth...
...HANGING on the rough plank wall of nearly every black sharecropper's shack in Wilcox County, Alabama, are dime-store pictures of Martin Luther King, John Kennedy, and Robert Kennedy. ( Jesus Christ is hanging there too, but he doesn't fit into the story yet. ) The relatively conservative blacks of the rural South worship these three charismatic men, as overly moderate as they may seem to us. But now King, Kennedy, and Kennedy are dead; there is no one to follow. Now we have benign neglect. With the war, northern urban political repression, campus struggles, and ecology, civil rights...
...expect a tough meet," he said. "I think I'd like to beat them more than any other team. It's early in the season, though, and it's going to be rough...
Northeastern goalie Dan Eberly had a rough night in the nets, turning away 33 of the 42 shots taken by the Crimson in the first two periods alone. He left the game after his shoulder had interfered with a Hynes wrist shot at the end of the second period...
...lieutenant Labienus defeated Camulogene, king of Lutece (ancient Paris), in a battle on that spot. By 1730 it was already called the Etoile (star) because it was a junction of roads on a hilltop. Some regarded it as no more than a "field of mud or dust, rough enough to break the strongest coach," but its fine view of the city inspired innumerable ideas for monuments there...