Word: horned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the 1880s, Bunau-Varilla worked for a private French company that attempted to dig a canal through the muddy, mosquito-filled tropical jungle of Panama, then a province of Colombia. Any canal across Central America would have eliminated the 7,000-mile journey around Cape Horn for ships navigating between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. At the time, most U.S. engineers favored a canal at sunny Nicaragua. The crossing there would have been 131 miles longer than at the 50-mile Isthmus of Panama. But almost all of the extra miles would have required no digging, since a Nicaraguan...
...walked strange, like a cat" approached her on the sidewalk, looked directly into her face, then passed. She said he held his right arm down stiffly, as though he were carrying something partly up his sleeve. Five minutes later she heard shots and the wail of a car horn. Next day, learning of the double shooting, she was certain the passing stranger had been the killer. When detectives questioned her, she recalled another vital detail: she had seen a cop tagging a cream-colored car parked illegally near a fire hydrant one block from the murder site...
...flag of the Somali Democratic Republic-at the Horn of Africa-proudly bears a five-pointed star: one point for each of the five regions in which the predominantly nomadic Somalis live. The problem is that only two of these five regions are inside the borders of the republic. The other three belong to Somalia's neighbors-Ethiopia, Kenya and the newly independent state of Djibouti-and Somalia has designs on all of them. Last week, after 16 years of sporadic fighting, it looked as if the Somalis might be on the verge of winning their third star...
Amid the growing complexity of East-West power games around the Horn of Africa, relations between Cairo and Tripoli remained tense last week, even though the shooting had stopped. At the urging of Arab peacemakers, in particular Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat and Algerian President Houari Boumedienne, both sides agreed to a mini-summit to settle the miniwar. There was no certainty that either Sadat or Gaddafi-who was mysteriously out of public view during the fighting -would attend. The mood was surly, particularly since losses appeared to have been high for so brief...
...wanted it to look like my horn-that it belonged to me. I didn't want to look like some shmuck up there. You can do that, you can get away with that. But what's the point...