Word: landed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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November 18: In the land of the U.S. Military Academy, the Crimson invades Army's Tate Rink and lights...
...Society is dissolving underneath Gorbachev.His platform is built on land which is slidingbeneath him," Hunt said...
...when I go home for the summer, I am transplated from this land of Democratic pipe dreams to a town where I am part of a voiceless minority...
Still, we're paying for a mountain of foreign goods that will be junk in ten years with land, buildings and the rights to The Three Stooges -- things that are eternal (well, maybe not the buildings). We're like the Manhattan Indians, who had little immediate need for the island and couldn't resist the trinkets...
Nevertheless, FEMA has become a convenient target for all the frustrations people feel. In the rural community of Awendaw (pop. 200), the Rev. Jonathan C. Roberts of the Greater Zion A.M.E. Church defied FEMA by setting up temporary trailers for his congregation -- on land where the flood plain is lowest. "They told me, 'You bring those trailers in here, we'll lock you up,' " says Roberts. "I told them, 'Meet me at the county line.' " Such confrontations have taken a toll on FEMA officials. Says relief officer Paul E. Hall: "No one likes to be called a jackass...