Word: land
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about 60 dollars a month to my club. One year the club roof sprung a leak. Where did they come up with the six grand needed to fix it? And who paid for the food served at the dinners, or the electric bill, or the City of Cambridge land taxes, which have tripled in the past five years? Who paid for the glass panes that had to be installed in the back window? What about the flooding basement? All these questions lay heavily on one side of the equation, and my humble 60 bucks (that's about 35 toilets...
...were said to be growing tomatoes in arrow-shaped patches that pointed the way for enemy pilots to California defense plants. Nisei students were reported to be pouring into German- language classes at UCLA, presumably to help the Nazis. One story said wily Japanese saboteurs had quietly bought up land around West Coast military installations...
...operation came off precisely as planned. At 1:15 a.m., while a dozen commandos stood watch outside, eight others stormed the house through the front door and raced to the second landing. Al-Wazir, hearing the commotion from his study, grabbed a pistol and headed for the top of the stairs. More than 60 bullets tore into him. Along the way, the gunmen killed the gardener and two guards but, as instructed, did not harm al-Wazir's family. By 4 a.m. they had returned to their ship. A few days later, they landed safely in Haifa harbor. An ironic...
...parents sent me to the pool to become a swimmer because you don't have to worry about gravity," Ogilvie says. "To this day, my father makes jokes like, 'Thank God you're a swimmer because we know what you're like on land...
...taking of Flight 422 exacerbated tensions throughout the Middle East. Syria, which has backed Iran in the gulf conflict, apparently infuriated Tehran by refusing to let the hijacked jetliner land in Damascus after it left Mashhad; at the same time, the skyjacking deepened the split between Iran and the P.L.O. The incident seemed somehow familiar: after the TWA hijacking in 1985, Thomas Cullins, one of the American hostages, noted that "we're pawns in an incredibly complex political and religious movement." The pawns were different last week, but the game had not changed...