Word: creation
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...Muammar Gaddafi ($20 million annually) and froze Kuwait's substantial contribution ($40 million annually) to Jordan. In August 1971, after the Jordanians threw out the remaining fedayeen forces, neighboring Syria severed diplomatic relations. A year later, Sadat broke relations over Hussein's proposal for the creation of a United Arab Kingdom, a federation of the East and West Banks of the Jordan River. The plan outraged the fedayeen and Sadat could do little else but support them...
...genial man with a large pipe who liked to gather with friends and translate Icelandic sagas, Tolkien bore all this stoically. He worked away at other books (Silmarillion and Akallabeth, tales about the creation and early history of Middle-earth, to be published posthumously). But he did point out that literal-minded folk who object to fairy stories as escapist mistake the wartime escape of the deserter (bad) for the wartime escape of the prisoner (necessary and good). Fairy tales represent the latter, Tolkien continued, and correspond to the primordial human desire-in a world of poverty, injustice and death...
...Oxford professor of Old and Middle English, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, who died last week at the age of 8 1 . Knowing that an imaginary world must be realistically equipped down to the last whisker of the last monster, Tolkien put close to 20 years into the creation of Middle-earth, the three-volume Lord of the Rings and its predecessor, The Hobbit (1938). He also equipped readers with 157 pages of history, appendixes, indexes, tables of consanguinity, and philologically impeccable notes on all the languages, including Elvish and Sindarin, spoken on Middle-earth. In the years between 1954, when...
...interest, from his friend Abplanalp) plus $1,000,000 in promissory notes payable to the original owners of the estate. Nixon hoped that all but six acres surrounding his Casa Pacifica might be bought from him by a presidential foundation set up in his name for the creation of a library. For reasons that have never been made public, that plan fell through, leaving Nixon the holder of more California real estate than he could afford. Evidently as a result, he was forced to negotiate a new loan to pay the 1970 installment ($100,000) on his promissory notes, plus...
...epilogue that occur 600 years beyond that. These short sections show a society struggling back to some kind of sufficiency after the human race has committed mass suicide during the Age of Ecology. Though comfort is meager and government insanely harsh, man is glorified as the Lord of Creation. The great annual holiday is called the Feast of Eater, honoring the legendary hero who long ago defied the order to kill himself. His name-no name is too obvious for Mano-was Dominick Priest...