Word: landed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...afraid that God might grant your request and that some morning you might wake up among those Egyptian fleshpots which symbolize the American way of life? We in the West have been struggling for many a year with the powers and demons that hover over the land of the 'economic miracle' [ meaning West Germany], this land which thoughtlessly joined NATO and proceeded to rearm . . . Pray for us as we pray...
Summing up, Judge Douglas put the issue in a way that made many a newspaperman cringe. Said he: "We have here a case which is a clash between the code of the newspaper fraternity and the law of the land as I conceive it to be." Most members of the fraternity could not help feeling that the code, at least in this case, was spattered by some embarrassing stains...
Paul Gauguin ended his career on the Paris Bourse in 1883, at the age of 35. His death two decades later, in the cerulean and blood-red land and seascape of the South Pacific, was watched over by honey-colored friends. Once when a Tahitian man named Totefa respectfully told him that he "could do things which other men were incapable of doing," Gauguin rushed to his diary and wrote: "I believe Totefa is the first human being in the world who used such words toward me. It was the language of a savage or of a child...
This week a committee appointed by the National Academy of Sciences and headed by Geochemist Harrison Brown of Caltech sketched out a ten-year program for unlocking the ocean treasure house, which may contain as much of value to man as the earth's land. As the planet becomes more thickly populated, whole nations may get the bulk of their food from the fertile sea, as well as minerals and fuel in vast abundance. A quick and valuable byproduct of oceanography will be improved knowledge of the conditions governing submarine warfare. The committee did not mention, but was well...
...elaborate system of drifting and anchored buoys that will report automatically and do for the ocean what weather observation stations do for the atmosphere over the land...