Word: continente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHENEVER WALLACE wants to send another Albert Brewer to the showers, he wheels himself out and goes straight to the John Rawbons, spread over the dark inner continent of Florida. Some people who venture into that dark interior which begins at the Everglades and runs up the center of the...
One divorce trial ended without a decision, but a second in 1923 explored the details again. Christabel, her husband charged, had cavorted across the Continent, writing home about "slim, silky Argentines" and "marcel-waved" Italians who courted, wined and dined her. She still insisted that they had not slept with...
In general, the North American continent in this century has been a place where catastrophe has held off...If, as may be, the holocausts at the rim of possibility do soon visit us, I am confident my capacities for expression can rise, if I live, to the occasion.
Nonetheless, State Department officials have been saying Kissinger has undergone a "change of perception" on Latin America since the days when he put the region at the bottom of his list of international priorities. He has apparently come to feel that Latin America's problems are an important part...
Faced with an experience that is often too rich and complex to pin down, Salisbury begins to wander between aimless lists ("the very names a litany--Prairie du Chien, La Crosse, Winona, Wabasha, Red Wing") and inconsequent facts ("that watercourse which Anthony Trollope thought the finest in the world"). His...