Word: landed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plunging into a military contest that the U.S. might not be willing to sustain. He announced that the flights would resume. "They will be protected," he pledged. While he refused to divulge details, it later appeared that fighter plane cover would be made available if needed-either from land bases in South Korea or from a naval task force that was being assembled, which will include several aircraft carriers...
...point out, no assurance that recognition would bring the two Germanys any closer together. In fact, if Ulbricht behaves according to past form, any West German offer of more intimate ties will only cause him to withdraw even farther behind the walls and barbed wire that fence off his land. Much as he would love full recognition for his regime, Ulbricht fears that a closer relationship with his free and rich neighbor might weaken his grip on the East Germans...
...people who began the plans for the complex nearly eight years ago the possibilities were very exciting. Harvard would not own the hospitals once they were completed, but would be the teaching agent in them. Further, Harvard agreed to provide the land and the initial construction costs for the complex. After completion the entire project would be sold to the private Affiliated Hospitals Corporation. In the original plans no provision was made for relocation of the families which will be displaced by the project...
...wife, Hadley Richardson), cut the pupil of Daddy's right eye with his fingernail. Baker recounts how Hemingway broke a toe on a gate, tore his stomach on a boat cleat, ripped open his hand on a punching bag, and shot himself in both legs while trying to land a shark. He was particularly prone to head injury: four major concussions in one two-year stretch...
What is Newby up to with this trial by ordeal? Alone in an alien and hostile land, Townrow is stripped naked, first physically, then spiritually. Eventually, he runs out of roles to play. Peeled of all his masks, Townrow is destroyed in order that he may come to life...