Word: lande
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Star-Spangled Banner," as sung by John Amirante, was altered to include the words "in the land of Wayne Gretzky...
...Lexington and Concord--the very first battles of the American Revolutionary War. Indeed, the events of and leading up to April 19, 1775 have been all but imprinted in our minds since we were in elementary school: The signal from Boston's Old North Church--"one if by land, two if by sea"; the midnight rides of Paul Revere, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott to warn the countryside that "the British are coming"; and, of course, the rebel militia at Concord North Bridge who fired at British troops after the "Shot Heard Round The World...
...supplies locked up and were audacious enough simply to leave their children outside of doctor's offices and depart, expecting the doctors to care for their children. East Germany had no real asylum laws, which coupled with West Germany's generosity led refugees to promote Germany as the promised land to all of their suffering countrymen at home. This demonstrated what Fritz calls a "basic principle of migration. The more pilgrims migrated to the promised land, the less promising it became." By 1992 Germany had half a million registered asylum seekers and it was estimated that twice that number...
...Generation"--isneither pretentious nor empty: for Hemingway andfor many of his contemporaries, the assertionthrough life and through writing of theunflinching code of sportsmen’s honor was not asilly return to childhood but a search for a codeof behavior that meant something in a post-Warworld where the land of childhood was far away andthe doctrines of established morality hadshattered...
...Cammy: Before "You Can't Do That" I got a rather auspicious start by being the voice of Kevin in the Care Bears pilot, "Care Bears in the Land Before Feeling." That appeared on some national network [in the United States], but I never really paid attention to these things...