Word: barred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bristled. "I do not think that the Bogota lot of jack rabbits should be allowed permanently to bar one of the future highways of civilization," Roosevelt wrote Hay. Earlier that summer the New York lawyer for the French company, William Cromwell, left a meeting in Washington with the President to issue a press release stating that the province of Panama might secede from Colombia, in which case the U.S. would recognize Panama as an independent nation and conclude a treaty with the new state. This scheme seemed to violate an 1846 U.S. agreement to guarantee the sovereignty of Colombia...
...bar next door, senior American pilots speak despondently of the future. "It's been a real tropical oasis," says one old pilot, "but it's getting more like a mirage with every passing day. There is no future, and the younger pilots know it and are getting out." Most of the 202 pilots (only two are Panamanian citizens) doubt that they will be paid adequately after Panama assumes that responsibility -or that the canal will be efficiently...
Authorities have sent in 4,856 fire fighters, toting "Pulaskis"-a combination hoe and ax-and "McClouds"-a wide rake. On twelve-hour shifts, the crews cut brush and trees with hand tools and chain saws to bar the approaching blaze. Most find the service exhilarating. Said one woman from Santa Cruz: "It's the most exciting thing anyone...
Stern and Spain's Interviu also reported that Berg resided in the Canary Islands until recently and appeared every night at a bar in Puerto de la Cruz with a harem of girls looking for pickups. The Stern report said he fled to Libya earlier this year, when an investigating judge summoned him for questioning...
...Times, of course, is not just another home-town daily, a genre that has long understood its local service? magazine functions. Though pressed by the Washington Post, the Times remains the best newspaper in the U.S. It is the platinum bar by which editors across the country measure their own papers. Except for the heavily financial Wall Street Journal (circ 1,465,000), the Times is the closest approximation in the U.S. to a national newspaper. Fully one-quarter of its readers live more than 100 miles from New York City. (One such subscriber is Jimmy