Word: countryful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The place for toys is F.A.O. Schwartz, which has stores all over the country, including two in the Boston area. Some of Schwartz's most unusual items are giant stuffed animals, including a six-foot-tall Snoopy, complete with a Santa Claus outfit, for $295.
"Nobody else had ever been invited to the Russian army country club. But we got in there, took the place over. And then later the American ambassador snubbed us, wouldn't even get out of his chair to say hello. So what can you do?"
"[Former Prime Minister Mehdi] Bazargan says this country has a thousand sher iffs. It also has a thousand voices."
A poacher at work in the back country of contemporary Africa? No: this scene, or at least something like it, occurred some 1.5 million years ago, at the edge of Lake Turkana, formerly called Lake Rudolph, in northwestern Kenya.
Suffering businessmen, using effective Washington lobbying, began to complain loudly. President William LaMothe of the Kellogg cereal company accused the commission of exhibiting "absence of fundamental fairness." Kentucky Senator Wendell Ford said that the agency had offended every businessman in his state. He noted that Louisville's Brown & Williamson...