Word: dura
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...familiar for the first time. In Africa, it is the unfamiliar that moves him. After flying, bouncing and sliding around the continent's largest nation, Hoagland learns more than he needs to about Dinkas, Turkanas, mercenaries, missionaries, coups, assassinations, the green monkey disease, the protein value of dura soghum, going without bath water ("I lay in my sleeping bag, cleaning my toes with my toes") and how a country runs on a trickle of gasoline: "So scarce that even when I was being chauffeured in a Ministry of Trade auto, the driver turned off the motor to go downhill...
...Jordan, and we say there should be territorial compromise for peace. The question is: What will happen within the next year or two?" On the West Bank, Arabs are wondering the same thing. "We want a solution, either by peace or war," says Mayor Mohammed Mousa Ammer of tiny Dura, near Hebron. "Extremism will only hasten...
Bizarre Proposal. As he explained to newsmen that he intended to take a job as a vice president with Dura Steel Products of suburban Los Angeles, Blue found it hard to keep a straight face. "Come on, guys," he pleaded at one point, "I'm supposed to be serious." He then listed the counterproposals he had made to Finley during the bargaining: he had offered to play for $50,000 with a retroactive bonus agreement; or on a long-range contract basis with assured increase; or if Finley would allow him to become a free agent...