Word: dot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tighten security everywhere. Foreign diplomats in Kabul reckon that more than 12,000 political prisoners have been jailed. Major intersections in the capital, where an 11 p.m. curfew is in effect, are patrolled by soldiers, and the country's few highways are under heavy guard; eight police checkpoints dot the 115-mile route from the Khyber Pass to Kabul. Where the rebellion really flourishes is in the rugged narrow canyons of rural Afghanistan. There a single rifleman can hold off an infantry battalion...
...Public Garden, off the Arlington stop of the MBTA Green Line, is the Ritz-Carlton of Boston Parks. Carefully cut sidewalks, ornate bridges, ornamental trees, treehouses, flowers, and graffiti-less statues dot the park. (At least all this was true before "A Small Circle of Friends", of plastic snow fame, moved in to film last week...
...individuality and come up with "breakthrough ideas."; Says he: "Out of a rigid consensus system, no good ideas can emerge."; One of Saji's ideas was to promote his company's beer and wine as well as whisky through franchised Suntory Pubs; 30,000 of them now dot Japan. He also opened a computerized distillery in 1973 near Mount Fuji. With only 75 employees, it turns out 11.8 million gallons a year, or 60% of Suntory's malt whisky production...
...Harvard's financial aid windfall may receive a Congressional "red dot" next year. Gibson said yesterday, "We'll be lucky if we don't get a reduction" in the 1980-81 package...
...place is changed. From the mobbed television scenes of presidential trips back, I anticipate the worst. And the last few miles of the drive are ominous (you fly to Albany, drive 40 miles north). My favorite American road sign is gone now -the darkly mysterious "Dot's Topless Oyster Bar"-but a mange of new signs has broken out, for gift shops, campgrounds, ice-cold Billy beer (all the remains of that sunken venture have drifted hither). Just beyond the agricultural experiment station, a new information center sits by a freshly dug pond with the regulation absurd Old Faithful...