Word: lande
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Across the land this week, millions of these marvelous trees are being bought, carted home, decorated, admired. At the White House the Carter family has three trees. A 30-foot spruce, lighted last week, graces the Ellipse and serves as the na tional tree.. A 20-foot fir, surrounded by antique toys and a miniature house set up by Amy, dominates the Blue Room. Another tree stands in the upstairs living quarters. But on Christmas morning, Amy and her family expect to be in Plains, where they will celebrate beside a tree cut this week by the President himself...
Though Taiwan has a population of 17 million in a land area smaller than Holland, its foreign trade amounted to $17.9 billion in 1977, more than the $16.4 billion that China herself generated in the same year. Business with the U.S. was particularly good-around $7 billion this year, more than the total of America's trade with the Soviet Union and China put together...
Williams' plot is a 400-acre island that was created when Hurricane Beulah changed the course of the Rio Grande in 1967. Because the island is south of the main river channel, the U.S. decided that the land was Mexican territory. Mexico, however, refused to accept ownership. So Williams bought the island from Mexican citizens for $400,000. By his reckoning, the 19th century Mexican treaties of Iguala and Guadalupe pave the warpath for him: they give Cherokee Indians the right to establish a nation...
...This land "of delicate, delectable emptiness," named for a vanished biblical kingdom, is also rife with American influence. Racial mixing can produce beautiful results; cultural miscegenation tends toward ludicrous juxtapositions. The snap of bubble gum is heard in the Koran school. Fashionably oversize sunglasses are worn by women in purdah while their denimed daughters in platform shoes kick up the dust in the streets of Istiqlal, the capital. Down in the slums the click of cal abashes and the muezzin's call to prayer compete with an alien rhythm, "with words, repeated in the tireless ecstasy of religious chant...
Small, black and physically unimpressive, Ellelloū can roam his parched land in virtual anonymity, at least when he leaves his silver Mercedes. He is essentially and purposely a faceless character, an ineffectual ruler who cannot symbolize the absolute authority of the old king and does not have the pragmatic instincts of his successors. "Our President," says one, "rules by mystical dissociation of sensibility...