Word: land
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Although Flaubert, who was always engaged in a search for just the right word or phrase, sometimes wrote only a few lines in a day, his parents amassed quite a good deal of land (at least a full chapter of the book details its location and exact acerage), which provided a consistent income in rents...
...peeled off on an Aloha Airlines flight from Hilo, on Hawaii Island, to Honolulu, on Oahu. A subsequent inspection of all 737s ordered by the Federal Aviation Administration turned up tiny stress cracks in nearly half the planes. In December an Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 was forced to land in Charleston, W. Va., after a 14-in. hole blew open in the plane's body...
...groups, as for individuals, taking a new name is a quintessential American act, a supreme gesture of self-creation in the land where Norma Jean Baker became Marilyn Monroe, homosexuals became gays, and Esso became Exxon. But for many blacks, the choice of a word by which others will know them has a special significance. During their centuries of bondage, slaves had names that were often chosen by their masters. Booker T. Washington wrote in his autobiography Up from Slavery that there was one point on which former slaves were generally agreed: "that they must change their names." This process...
Rushdie's friends worried aloud about how he could make a life for himself under the Ayatullah's threat of death. Would he hire guards, or remain in seclusion, or retreat to some distant land? Few held out any hope that Khomeini would simply change his mind because the real victims of the Rushdie affair were not only the hapless author and his wife but the 50 million citizens of revolutionary Iran. After a decade of terror and death, the country had seemed to be in the early stages of recovery. But by his actions last week Khomeini brought that...
Army soldiers then tried to destroy remaining homes, claiming the land was government-owned. After protests by families, the army sent `squadrons of death' to suppress the uprising, killing several protestors...