Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nearly did him in. They invested in a nightclub, and he gave her a '76 Pacer, "TV and sound" equipment, "a wardrobe worth thousands," a $7,500 bond and a $9,000 bank account. He also bought her brother a new truck and her mother a color-television...
...grown up in another world, where enemies were not grey and you did not have to fight them with grey matter. Where there was a clear and present evil that I could lay into without pulling punches. But absolutely evil characters only exist in Middle Earth and James Bond movies, so I went to school...
...halt, and supermarket sales plummeted as buyers wondered whether the courts would allow them to keep items purchased within city limits. Officials of the Cape Cod tourist town, dreading a ghost town future for Mashpee, sought federal loans to shore up the town's teetering credit rating. As municipal bond sales and mortgages became increasingly difficult to negotiate, race relations in the town, which is one-third Indian, showed signs of strain. Things seemed even bleaker when the residents of Gay Head, Mass., a town across the Sound on Martha's Vineyard, voted to give all of their public land...
...upheld the Georgia legislature's 1966 refusal to seat black Activist Julian Bond because of Bond's endorsement of an anti-Viet Nam War statement by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The majority opinion branded the SNCC statement "a call to action based on race ... It aligns the civil rights organization with 'colored people in such other countries as the Dominican Republic, the Congo, South America and Rhodesia...
...given to reminding his visitors that "we are the Holy Father"). Plague and cholera still ravage its citizens because ecclesiastical authorities have hamstrung medicine and banned science altogether. Jean-Paul Sartre is a French Jesuit. Children read books like St. Lemuel's Travels and "a collection of Father Bond stories." The entire canon of William Shakespeare was proscribed during his lifetime and most of his plays burned as incitements to humanism. Hamlet is now attributed to Thomas...