Word: landed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though top energy experts in Ottawa and Washington seem to favor the Arctic route, it still faces formidable hurdles. One is that the Canadian government almost certainly will have to come to some agreement over land rights with the Indians and Eskimos of the Northwest Territories...
...Rhodes scholar who earned an M.A. in foreign affairs at Oxford after his Annapolis years, the Chicago-born Turner has logged an impressive career both at sea and on land. Most of his ship time has been served aboard destroyers; after receiving his two rear-admiral stars in 1970, he commanded a cruiser-destroyer flotilla that stalked the Soviets' Mediterranean squadron. The following year he went to the Pentagon as the Navy's director of systems analysis...
...Compleat Birdman wittily analyzes the unearthly urge that inspired biblical figures, Leonardo da Vinci and just about everyone else who ever wanted to trade the land for the wind. Here is Simon Magus, an early Roman necromancer who rose skyward (possibly by means of a balloon) before a crowd that included St. Peter. To the relief of the early Christian spectators, Magus suffered an instant-and fatal-crash. Haining wistfully relates the tale of Bladud, a doomed 9th century British king, who borrowed a page from Greek mythologies and perished like Icarus with a pair of feather-and-wax wings...
...infant was declared to be the reincarnation of the tenth Trungpa Tulku, a supreme abbot of one of Tibet's strongest Buddhist sects. A royal coronation, attended by 13,000 monks, followed soon after, and the boy was raised to rule nearly a thousand square miles of farm land, grazing fields and fortress-like monasteries...
...advisory committee charged with recommending a developer to the state yesterday placed advertisements in the New York Times, The Washington Post and The Boston Globe, offering the land for commercial development...