Word: landed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...machismo-minded hard core, Ronald Reagan's occasionally bellicose campaign utterances are simply long overdue flexings of America's muscle. But last week a remark that he would be willing to send U.S. troops to Rhodesia exploded like a tripped-over land mine. By week's end the candidate was in full retreat...
Moon Landrieu, LL.D., mayor of New Orleans. He took the cause of the city and cities across the land to the seats of power...
...Sight. Tiring of her sexual service for Hays, she left for Hollywood in the spring of 1975. "I'd been giving Academy Award performances once a week," she told the Washington Post. When she returned from the West Coast last July after failing to land even a cocktail waitress job, Hays asked South Carolina Democrat Mendel J. Davis to put her on his staff. As a member of Hays' House Administration Committee, Davis, 33, was eager to oblige the chairman. After a month or so Liz asked to rejoin Hays. He placed her on the committee payroll...
...empty Cuban planes returning from Africa refueled in Georgetown. Officially, Guyana has denied that a third plane, which stopped for fuel on its way to Angola, ever came through Guyana. Privately a high Guyanese official admits: "We did not know there were troops aboard when they asked permission to land, but even if we had known, we probably would have let them land...
...France sought to justify its plane's loud takeoff by explaining that the pilot was trying to climb unusually fast in an effort to limit noise over populated areas. British officials told an annoyed Secretary of Transport William Coleman, who has allowed the planes to land only on a 16-month trial basis, that their takeoff plans had also been changed for this reason...