fifty-mile

• “You spent your entire life within a fifty-mile radius of your home.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Renegade History of the United States

• “In the morning his mother cooked the breakfast over the camp-fire, and capped it with a fifty-mile ride into the next sun-down.”

  CHAPTER 5

• “In no time at all, the new supervisor had me banished to “never-never land”—the Los Angeles divisional office, a fifty-mile drive one way from my home in Costa Mesa.”

  Simon & Schuster: Dancing with the Devil

• “If one were lucky enough to somehow breach the three-foot-thick walls, one would be faced with two options: a six-mile run down the access road—which was under the watch of two permanently manned guard towers—followed by a perilous fifty-mile desert journey; or a three-thousand-foot dive off the front cliff, where one could taste the air of freedom for all of twenty-five seconds before being shredded on the razor-sharp rocks at the base.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Thieves of Darkness

• “Mom arranged to have every single appropriate female in a fifty-mile radius brought here.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Best of Friends

• “There are several small native villages within a fifty-mile radius of the compound.”

  Simon & Schuster: Black Magic

• “From the air, it looked like the hand of God had wiped off the map the entire fifty-mile Mississippi coastline.”

  Simon & Schuster: COURAGE AND CONSEQUENCE

• “He controlled nearly all the jukebox action within a fifty-mile radius of Niles.”

  Simon & Schuster: Me, The Mob, And The Music

• “The trip was seldom easy: The relatively uncomplicated fifty-mile trip by stage from Williamsburg to Richmond could take fifteen hours after a heavy rain.”

  Simon & Schuster: Ratification

• “My body was good, which made me one of maybe five females within a fifty-mile radius of Manhattan who did not have a negative body image.”

  Simon & Schuster: As Husbands Go

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