Word: lake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sisters sing in pure, clear voices that shine like sunlight on a spring lake, but the songs are often dark. "There's a bitterness there that won't go away," Maggie acknowledges, a feeling that may have come in part from some bruising years on the folkie circuit and a wrangle over a first album (released by Columbia in 1975). When the record came out, and bombed, Maggie and Terre were hiding out in Hammond, La., waitressing in the Magnolia Restaurant and living at a friend's Kung Fu temple, where they picked up a few rudiments...
...what McCurdy called "as good a race as he has run all year," All-American John Chafee finished second, blistering home just behind Brown's speed demon Osman Lake...
...Eurailpass gives unlimited first-class train travel in 15 European countries (not including Britain), 15 days to three months ($190 to $460), covers some lake, river and sea travel, with reduced rates on other transportation...
...BritRail Pass, for 7, 14, 21 or 30 days (from $100 to $200 first class), includes connections to the Isle of Wight and Lake Windermere steamers. Another pass ($12) opens doors to 500 stately homes, castles and historical sites...
...most wanted figure in Big Daddy's reign of terror turned up fairly quickly: Robert Astles, a white, British-born onetime road-construction foreman who advised Amin on the uses of repression as well as on his public relations buffoonery. Kenyan police arrested Astles after he had crossed Lake Victoria by speedboat from Uganda. Astles once was close to Milton Obote, whom Amin ousted as President in 1971; in time he turned adviser to Amin and soon became a main architect of the dreaded State Research Bureau (SRB), the Gestapo-like organization that was responsible for the deaths...