Word: land
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...immigrant had arranged a code with his friends before returning to the promised land. "I will send a picture," he told them. "If I am well off, I will be standing. If things are going badly with me, I will be sitting down." The first snapshot to arrive showed the sender lying flat on the ground...
...sure dates just love me to ask them all about it. The only thing I know is that you shouldn't cheer when your date is biting off his nails; and you shouldn't admire the wrong band. Everyone knows that Harvard's band is the best in the land...
...again & again was Moscow's women, much coveted on the world slave markets. Sultan Ahmed I is said to have asked his eldest son one day: "My Osman, wilt thou conquer Crete for me?" Whereupon Osman replied: "What have I to do with Crete? I will conquer the land of the white Muscovite maidens...
Acts of God. Mexico, one of the most confident of Latin American countries, is full of the desire for better food, better education, more comforts. That is the legacy of the Revolution. But its hopes are still far from fulfillment. Land reform is 30 years old-but Mexico does not yet raise enough food to feed itself. War-born industries are wobbly. Unemployment is growing. Furthermore, in recent months, nature has been anti-Mexican. Aftosa, the destructive foot-&-mouth disease, has crippled the basic cattle industry. A locust plague has stripped the Tehuantepec Isthmus. There has been widespread drought. There...
...this theme, Holbrook Jackson, eminent British bibliophile, essayist and editor, begins a leisurely but purposeful wandering through the land of literature. He comments widely on the aims, techniques, and inner lives of writers from Horace to Hemingway, trying always to get behind the props and wings of the literary stage...