Word: land
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week after the disastrous march, he delivered one of his most stirring speeches to supporters at Centenary Methodist Church. "I just want to do God's will," he declared. "And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over and seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the Promised Land. And I'm happy % tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory...
...sits admired but mostly untouched in Doaker's house in Pittsburgh, and it threatens to tear the family apart again. Boy Willie Charles, son of the man who stole the piano, wants to sell it and use the proceeds to buy and farm the very land where his ancestors were slaves. Boy Willie's sister Berniece denounces as sacrilege the idea of selling away a legacy her father died to obtain...
...comparison, even the once despised government regime is winning some popular support as it gains militarily against the rebels. With a view toward future elections, the government has initiated a series of rural land reforms, and its economic liberalizations have been bringing a measure of prosperity to + this benighted land. With hopes rising that Viet Nam's soldiers will eventually be gone, perhaps peace, too, will visit tortured Kampuchea before long...
...Israeli cartoon commercial in this year's elections showed a Pac Man character chomping away at the occupied territories, then continuing to gobble the entire land of Israel. These fears are exaggerated, but unfortunately all too fitting with the Palestinian rhetoric...
...lower house of the Diet after making a fortune in railroads, hotels and department stores. Nicknamed "Pistol" for his buccaneering business methods, Yasujiro bought out impoverished aristocrats who could not pay inheritance taxes during the late '40s and early '50s, put up hotels on the newly acquired land and cockily called the hotel chain Prince. The 484-room Tokyo Prince, for example, is set on the former cemetery of the Tokugawas, the shoguns who ruled Japan for 265 years before the Meiji Restoration began...