Word: landed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was a breeze and, temporarily, some of the mist cleared. I could, at last, se the deep quarry. I could see the quarry wall opposite us, and the trees on the land above it. Looking to the newly revealed landscape on my left I found the cabin, perched on the brink of another wall of the enormous white pit. Smoke was coming our of the chimney. Tommy, who had stayed behind in the cabin, had started a fire...
...when I first learned what the United Nations and who Dag Hammarskjold were. It was almost seven years later that I watched a tearful Pauline Frederick son tell the world that Hammarskjold was dead. His airplane had crashed--or had been shot down--just as it was about to land at Ndola, a small town on the border between the Congolese province of Katanga and Rhodesia. Hammarskjold had flown there to talk with Moise Tshombe, intending to negotiate not only a ceasefire but the terms under which Katanga would eventually be re-unified with the rest of the Republic...
...MBTA spokesman said Friday that the outlook was encouraging: "It looks pretty good that the MBTA will be able to acquire the land. It looks as though we have finally found a home...
...days after the master plan was released, a report leaked out that the MBTA was considering a tract of land in South Braintree. Local officials there protested, and it now appears that the South Braintree site has fallen out of favor with the MBTA, leaving the Penn Central yards as the prime prospect for the car barns...
...nuts. It reminds me how much he wants to go out and run around in the street. He'd be killed if he did. Dogs should be allowed to grow up on big farms, and run around over the fields, and know all kinds of dog things about the land that we could never know...