Word: continente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In this atmosphere even the purchase of Alaska−which excluded Russia from our continent−was regarded in its day as a folly. Congress was prevailed upon only with the greatest difficulty to provide the $7 million to complete the deal. The mythology of American ineptitude in its diplomatic...
Amidst the ringing praise for his wisdom and charm, darker moments in the complex relationship between the European-born U.S. Secretary and the Continent's leaders were mostly forgotten. The much-vaunted Year of Europe that Kissinger had advocated in 1973, without prior consultation, had outraged the allies. In...
After 17 years of drawing that freckle-faced urchin Dennis the Menace from a penthouse in Geneva, Cartoonist Hank Ketcham is going home to California. The cost of living on the Continent became too steep for Ketcham, 56, who first sketched the kid with the cowlick in 1951. Gripes he...
Thomson said that trips to Canada fall into a "different category" because it is on the same continent as the United States, and the program has an "obligation to expose fellows to their problems."
The Astors had received other bids for the Observer-from Fleet Street, four Arab countries and even a Hong Kong patent-medicine heiress. Until last week the leading suitor was Publisher Rupert Murdoch, the Australian whose three-continent newspaper empire includes London's Sun and News of the World...