Word: dar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Senate, from Dar es Salaam to New Delhi. The brouhaha stems from U.S. plans to upgrade a small naval and communications station on the island into a $55 million base to support U.S. naval forces in the Indian Ocean...
...what lies unseen beneath the thick Venusian shroud that continues to fascinate scientists. Said Stanford Ra dar Astronomer H. Taylor Howard...
...wanted was missing anyway. But none of that stuff mattered when I got this letter. The ACU is the American Conservative Union. Maybe it's because I keep my politics quiet; maybe it's because I wear dresses sometimes; maybe they just send these letters to all potential DAR members. Anyhow, it was in my mailbox at 10:30 this morning. They had even addressed it personally. It began...
...kings, sheiks in flowing robes and guerrillas in commando uniform. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat showed up in a neatly tailored suit of banker's blue; Saudi Arabia's King Feisal wore a richly brown bisht with gold trim. While most of the delegates flew into Algiers' Dar el Beida airport, where they were greeted with 21-gun salutes and an honor guard with turbans and flashing swords, Morocco's King Hassan II arrived aboard the French cruise ship Roussillon, which he had chartered for the occasion. Hassan is understandably loath to fly: his own air force...
...long and colorful history of railroading, few tracks have been laid any faster than those of the Tanzam Railway, which is currently moving southwestward from the Tanzanian port of Dar es Salaam to the copper belt of Zambia at the extraordinary rate of three miles a day. The 1,162-mile line, financed with the help of a $402 million interest-free loan from China, is being built by 15,000 Chinese, laboring alongside 35,000 Zambians and Tanzanians. The hardest part of the job - 21 tunnels, 200 bridges and some 1,000 culverts in Tanzania - has already been completed...