Word: lande
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...senior Mossad officer was dispatched to persuade Kenyan officials to allow Israeli planes to land at Nairobi Airport in an emergency. The Kenyans were receptive. In January, Ugandan dictator Idi Amin Dada had helped terrorists get into Kenya for an unsuccessful attempt to destroy an Israeli El Al plane during a takeoff from Nairobi; then the following month, after coming across some old British colonial maps, Amin claimed that huge chunks of Kenya actually belonged to Uganda. In return for Kenyan help, the Israelis promised to cripple Amin's Soviet-equipped air force. To spare Nairobi the wrath...
...Edward Kennedy and 20 relatives and friends sallied forth into western Massachusetts last week on a camping trip. Among those accompanying Teddy were Wife Joan, Sisters Jean Smith and Eunice Shriver and Children Kara, 16, Ted Jr., 14, and Patrick, 8. They all lived off the fat of the land -cookouts at local friends' homes-endured scraped knees and capsized canoes, and at an amusement park, braved the roller coaster. As ever, the Kennedy holiday was no swing in a hammock...
Birkdale, in the mold of Prestwick where the first Open was held, is an unkempt links-land course whittled by the elements, running along the railway line between Liverpool and Southport. The dunes that straddle the fairways and perpetually tearing winds along with four par fives in the last six holes exact the utmost of poise, resilience and control from the field...
Next to that, the Republicans are a low, base, scary spectre. Hunter Thompson, writing about Nixon's last campaign, said that Republican victory rests on the assumption that the United States is a land of 215 million used car salesmen--that we should respond to our poor people and the world's underprivileged in a spirit of paranoia, that we ought to shoot first and ask questions later, that free enterprise somehow means huge government subsidies to corporations with too much decision-making power over the kind of work we do and the kinds of dreams we have...
...hundred or so pages that take Wilson through his Coast Guard years would make a fine short sea novel. The writing, in general, is dogged, honest and unbrilliant, and to chronicle the Greenland patrol, those qualities are sufficient. The sea supplies the power and depth missing in his dry-land work, just as similar sagas of water and war have served other journeymen writers well...