Word: landed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...editor unwittingly displayed sound judgment by putting Stevie Wonder between Biko and "Anonymous," for I suppose that that is where Wonder will land when historians and literary critics evaluate his impact...
...could be wrong. Maybe Ali's quote really is more original than Tennyson's "And from his ashes be made/The violet of his native land," which has two cross-references. Or maybe I'm right, and the editors didn't feel like selling a separate appendix listing all the other people who claimed greatness...
...major center of the dispute over oil exploration -- is a park the size of eight Yellowstones. Within this vast preserve, called the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, lies a 1.5 million-acre section of the coastal plain that the oil industry insists has the greatest potential of any land in the U.S. Only two native villages abut this vast park: Arctic Village, on the southern border in the foothills of the Brooks Range, which is home to 100 Gwich'in members of the Athapaskan Indian group; and Kaktovik, on Barter Island, far to the north at the edge of the Beaufort...
...next at-bat Doug Demeo broke the tie by lofting a Texas Leaguer into no-man's land between Harvard second baseman Casey Cobb and rightfielder Ted Decareau. Both Dextradeur and McMillin came around to score on the bloop hit, making it 4-2, Holy Cross...
...Sargent and Olmsted took advantage of the vales and hills of the land here and set up the arboretum to fit as many different types of trees and plants as possible," Bussewitz says. "Only in a place like this can you find trees of this diversity so beautifully juxtaposed...