Word: landing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clock it was clear that Maria was not going to die. Those who had lost their bets-their horses and mules and pieces of land to skeptics and Communists-cursed their luck as they turned away to begin the journey home...
...parking lots for bicycles, hawked Maria's autograph to dusty pilgrims. In the village square a rusty gramophone was grinding out popular waltz tunes. Soon the pilgrims began betting on whether Maria would die. They bet money, their wine crops, their horses, mules and even pieces of land. As Maria's hour of agony drew near the wine flowed faster, the music beat louder, the bets went higher...
...night long they banged at the door of Mrs. Emerald McNeil, a deputy recorder, for prospectors' licenses and numbered aluminum tags to nail on their stake posts. For two days she did a land-office business, then ran out of tags. By then the first prospectors were back trying to get their claims registered...
...capable wife of the 32nd Vice President, his "righthand man" for half a century; of a neurological ailment; in Uvalde, Tex. Ettie married Judge John Nance Garner in 1895, served as his private secretary when he was elected to the House in 1902, as second lady of the land (1933-1940) shunned Washington's social life...
...this drowned world the Dutch water engineers prepared to rebuild the dikes and dry the land behind them. It was calculated that the work had to be completed before November 1945 or the damage to the island would be permanent. To accomplish it, the engineers started with four rowboats, three cars, eight horse-carts, twelve hand shovels, two wrenches, and a few hundred laborers. They succeeded...