Word: landed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...squawling in the middle of the night ?they're making a helluva racket, but you don't know if they are fighting or making love." From the start of hostilities, however, it was all too obvious that the front-line units of China's huge, 3% million-man land army and those of Viet Nam's leaner but highly honed 615,000 troops were not embracing. At dawn on Saturday, Feb. 17, Chinese forces, massed more than 300,000 strong north of Viet Nam in Yunnan and Kwangsi provinces, loosed a massive artillery barrage on key border positions. Hardest...
After the revolution, another struggle for power. That this would be the next chapter in Iran's political saga grew ever more possible last week as the country's new leaders struggled to consolidate their tenuous control over their chaotic land. In many ways, the immediate challenge facing the regime headed by Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan was reflected at a rally staged at the Tehran University soccer stadium by disgruntled leftist groups that want a bigger voice in the post-Shah government than they have so far been allowed. Under the banner of the Marxist fedayeen, an overflow...
...Leave It to Beaver suburban world of the American '50s, the family and the child were enveloped in a cherishing mythology. Americans, it was even said, had grown obsessively kiddified; they were child-worshipers who sentimentalized their offspring in a complacent land of Little League and Disney. Toward the end of the Eisenhower years, the literary critic Leslie Fiedler wrote a lively diatribe about the "cult of the child," which he denounced as "this most maudlin of primitivisms...
Executives struggle with the paper chase in never-never land...
...cities like San Francisco, Houston, Washington, Atlanta, Milwaukee, Chicago, New York and Boston, apartment dwellers are getting surprising messages as more and more rental buildings in desirable neighborhoods go "condo" or "co-op." The owner of a cooperative buys shares in a corporation that owns his entire building and land; the number of shares depends on the size and desirability of his apartment. By contrast, a condominium buyer owns his apartment outright and has joint title with the other condo owners to the land surrounding his building...