Word: landed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...G.I.T. Identical, except that length of stay is 14 to 21 days, and $120 to $190 in land arrangements must be made in advance. Peak season, June 1 to Sept...
...deserted villages and towns. There is no sign of the small farmers who used to make a decent living growing tobacco and olives. Now it is an area caught in a strange, static war, with Israeli armor and infantry crossing over to help the Christians fight the Palestinians. No land has been taken by either side. Nor has there been any formal battle, with a winner and a loser...
...GROUP INCLUSIVE TOUR Passenger must stay seven to eight days and book $70 in land arrangements (hotels, rental cars) 15 days before departure. Rises to $424 in the air and $90 on land at certain times...
...Pont, a onetime chief director of the family business, had been forced out in a corporate power play and was seeking to build an empire of his own in Florida Before and during the Depression, Ball made regular swings through Florida for Du Pont, buying up businesses and land at bargain prices. When Du Pont died in 1935, Ball was the obvious choice to manage the estate...
...burning of a neighbor's child in a plane crash. "God is a brute and traitor, abandoning us to time," writes Dillard. She despairs of earthly happiness: "You can get caught holding one end of a love, when your father drops, and your mother; when a land is lost, or a time, and your friend blotted out, gone . . ." But in the end, she witnesses a baptism that heralds her own reawakening of faith. One Christian sect, she reads, posits a substance known as "Holy the Firm," a substance buried deep within planets that "is in touch with the Absolute...