Word: fief
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rich deep black alluvial soil" of Mississippi, Faulkner created a darker earth: Yoknapatawpha County, a fictional fief 2,400 square miles in breadth and two centuries in depth, veined with the spilled blood of successive owners-the Indians, the Spanish, the French for a moment in time, then the Anglo-Saxons, "roaring with Protestant scripture and boiled whisky, changing the face of the earth: felling a tree which took 200 years to grow, in order to extract from it a bear or a capful of wild honey...
...Republic last week was welcomed back into the hemisphere's family of nations. Meeting in its marbled Washington headquarters, the Organization of American States voted 20 to 0 (Cuba abstaining) to lift the diplomatic boycott and partial trade embargo applied to late Dictator Rafael Trujillo's Caribbean fief...
...first time in 49 years, the name of Sam Rayburn was missing from the ballot in Texas' Fourth Congressional District. The cotton-and-cattle-country Fourth was Mister Sam's undisputed personal fief; the Texas legislature kept it the sixth smallest in the U.S. (its population is 213,374; by comparison, a neighboring district contains 951,527 Texans) to make fence-tending easy for the aging Speaker, who died last November at 79. Six candidates, including a lone Republican, campaigned to succeed him in a special election. Nobody polled a majority, so the two who led the field...
...scraggly Belgian province. When Belgium won independence in 1839, La Générale got the country going with loans, and half a century later King Leopold II repaid the favor by picking La Générale to unlock the wealth of his Congo fief...
...backing Ramfis, in the hope that he could bloodlessly "democratize" Trujillo-land, the U.S. made it a condition that Uncles Héctor and Arismendi stay away. They did for a while, then began to complain that young Ramfis was frittering away their fief, and blustered home to stop him. At that point, Ramfis gave up. After all, he had a reported $500 million stashed away in solid currencies in overseas banks. So he resigned as armed forces chief of staff and embarked with a consoling German blonde on the family yacht Angelita, bound first for the nearby island...