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Eddison has vivid memories of the struggle of the Rhodesian guerrilla forces. They fought their first battle with the regime in 1966, and in the next three years there was widespread fighting across northern Rhodesia. After a several-year lag in the fighting, the liberation troops resumed the offensive, directing their efforts primarily against white farmers and forcing many of them to abandon their farms and move to the cities...
Educational Lag...
Goldwyn's tongue did sometimes lag behind his racing brain. At least, one would like to believe that he really did declare that verbal contracts are not worth the paper they are printed on, or that extra Indians could be quickly recruited at the nearest reservoir. Or that he dismissed an objection that a script was "too caustic" by announcing that if he liked it he would make the movie no matter what the cost...
...swimming alone at night. When bits of her body wash ashore the next morning, there is no mistaking what has happened, but the town fathers persuade Police Chief Martin Brody not to close the beaches. After all, it is the beginning of the tourist season, rentals are lag ging anyway, and with luck the thing will rumble off to Patagonia, or at least to East Hampton...
...time, hundreds of tourists missed their scheduled planes to the mainland because the airlines had adopted the new time schedule, and they had to be flown home aboard special flights. At the Bank of America headquarters in San Francisco, bleary-eyed employees complained that they were suffering from "D.S.T. lag...