Word: landed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Medical School has obtained its first-choice site for the construction of a new $5 million library, a spokesman for the Administration said last night. The library will be built on the Huntington Ave. land now occupied by the Martin Public School, which has been condemned by the city as unsafe...
Within an hour after the monk's bullets found their mark, Ceylon's tough, puckish Governor General Sir Oliver Goonetilleke proclaimed what amounted to a state of emergency over Ceylon-a volatile land that boasts the highest homicide rate in Asia. But next day, as Banda's like-minded colleague, Education Minister Wijayananda Dahanayake, took over the premiership, a strange quiet settled over the country. Taxis, buses and cars flew mourning flags of white; the only hint of violence lay in a rising wave of public feeling against the Buddhist clergy. In Colombo a two-mile-long...
...land, Aalto can do no wrong, is held in awe as a kind of national monument. When Saynatsalo allowed the electric-light company to erect a hideous neon advertising sign that marred the view, Aalto led a night boat-raiding party, stoned the offending sign to smithereens. The electric company started to sue for damages, then thought better...
...extra service can win customers. He built a snowplow, hitched a horse to it and in the winter cleared his customers' driveways. Summers he hawked Ford tractors to farmers, found that the best way to sell was to demonstrate the plows himself; he would plow the farmers' land, and the farmers figured that if young Ed could do it that easily, so could they. He earned $600 a summer. Winters he built and sold radios. He also rebuilt two nearly wrecked cars, thus became, at 16, one of Marne's rare two-car owners...
...violently (his mother was near to death in childbirth), lived violently, died violently. He had an intense feeling of mission, and believed he was fated "to lead a country" to glory; sometimes he would add harshly, "Any country would do." His first choice was Palestine. Posted to the Holy Land in 1936 as a British intelligence officer, he flung himself with typical passion into the Zionist cause. The Jews, knowing that Wingate was born into an evangelical Protestant sect (the Plymouth Brethren) and was a distant relative of the famed Lawrence of Arabia, at first thought...