Word: landed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days, we were told, 5% of the population owned all of Tibet's land and 70% of its livestock. Roughly 1 million Tibetans-or more than half the total population, now 1.7 million-were serfs. We were shown a block-long exhibit of primitive torture instruments, knives, whips, chains and an iron pot in which the hands of serfs were boiled. Secretary Schlesinger was also shown a picture of Broadcaster Lowell Thomas, who visited Tibet in 1949. The country's rulers consider Thomas an "American imperialist" because he sought, on behalf of the Dalai Lama, to obtain...
Arms and Legs. All across the land this September, the same theme has been played with only minor variations. Taxpayers are voting against increased support for education-one of the few levies on which they do have a voice -and many state legislatures, hesitant to raise taxes this election year, are putting the squeeze on the schools. Illinois, for example, has trimmed $37.5 million from funds allotted for summer school programs, and the Michigan legislature appropriated more than $34 million from the teachers' retirement fund to avoid a deficit. In California, the powerful teachers organization managed...
...founder of Warner Bros. By dual seignorial right, he grew up in the studios and back lots of Hollywood. "I had the whole world there," LeRoy recalls. "I could go around the corner and be in Singapore. Around another corner I was in Paris, and around another in the Land...
...Sept. 21, 1938, seven years before the atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima, a hurricane descended with almost as little warning upon the northeast coastline of the U.S. Until then the land-lubbing public had known of "gales," "tempests," "blows," even "a bit of weather." But "hurricane" was a new and terrible escalation of apocalyptic power in the popular consciousness...
...interviews with survivors, Allen has, in effect, retracked the storm. There is the occasionally odd and saving incident. In New Jersey, 60 colonies of beavers manned their dams in Palisades Park and, in the process of saving themselves, kept down the flooding of 42,000 acres of nearby land and highways. But mostly Allen's story is a sequence of unremitting havoc...