Word: landing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...line's most crucial effort of the day came in the middle of the third quarter, when the Minutemen went for a first down on fourth and three at the Harvard 25. UMass halfback Cliff Pedrow went off left tackle and found no promised land. First down, Harvard...
...started walking into the desert, looking for any slight rise of fall in the land, or any bush over seven inches high, or any other sort of sleeping place. I climbed over a barbed wire fence and headed out across some farmer's land, my flashlight the only light for miles and my breathing the only sound in the night. Except for the mooing which I heard after about a mile--soon followed by the sound of cows running across my path about 40 yards ahead...
...Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie...
Whoever rules Cambodia in the foreseeable future will reign over a devastated land. According to refugees who have escaped into Thailand, the once lush province of Battambang in Western Cambodia is bare of all fruit and bereft of most of its people. In eerily deserted villages, papaya trees stand like bean poles, their fruit, then their leaves, having been torn off by starving peasants. According to the British Foreign Office study, since 1975 an estimated 2 million Cambodians have died of starvation and disease as a result of a campaign to drive city dwellers into the countryside, where there...
Before setting off for the Crusades seven centuries ago, Louis IX of France ordered the kingdom's bordellos closed. Uprooted but unfazed, many French prostitutes proceeded to join the Crusaders, traipsing along to the Holy Land as camp followers. Modern rulers have not had much better luck. When the French government cracked down on prostitution three years ago, the ladies of the night took sanctuary in churches...