Word: lande
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have you seated here, facing us in Ismailia and discussing substance and not procedure." When he expressed his pleasure at having the conference "close to the place where Moses crossed the sea," Begin quipped: "It took Moses 40 years to cross the desert on his way to the Promised Land, while it took us only 40 minutes to cross...
...size of a baby's head. Each melon and gourd displays, in its massive and purposeful rotundity, the benefits of collective selfcriticism. Like the bulbous backside of a Cadillac in America 20 years ago, the distended cabbage and the steatopygous turnip are images of Good Government. In this land, imagination goes about its business with methodical certainty. There are no lopeared, ginger-bearded visionaries lurching about in the paddyfields, frightening the crows. "I thought the water pipes in this painting didn't look nice bare," one artist is quoted in the catalogue about his work, The New Look...
...reason seems clear: the Brazilian government wants to turn the Indians into fully integrated Portuguese-speaking Brazilians as fast as possible, so that it will not be hampered by them in its attempts to exploit remote mineral deposits and open the country to land developers. It is thus opposed to anyone-and that includes S.I.L. personnel-who contributes to "keeping the Indians in their natural state." S.I.L. officers and many Brazilian linguists deny the charge, in part because S.I.L. teams, once they make a tribe literate in its own language, customarily proceed to teach the tribesmen Portuguese as well...
...federal jury in Boston declared on Friday afternoon the Wamponoag Indians of Mashpee were not a tribe on certain legally crucial dates, a decision which may hinder the Indians' attempt to claim a large land area in Mashpee, Mass...
...white jury of eight men and four women said Friday the Wamponoags were not a tribe in August 1976 when they filed the suit, nor in 1790, the date of a federal law that forms the basis for the land claim went into effect, nor in 1869 or 1870, when the Indian district of Mashpee was incorporated as a town...