Word: laning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Egyptian coast. Laden with extra fuel, extra guns and extra ammunition, the Israelis swiveled off the landing craft before dawn. They achieved total surprise and inflicted heavy casualties on their 40-mile sweep down the coast. As the convoy moved south through El Hafayer, trucks pulled off the two-lane asphalt highway with friendly waves to make way for what appeared
...President's other mortgage obligations are less Zeckendorfian. The two houses he bought on Bay Lane in Key Biscayne formed a $252,800 package. The house at 516 Bay Lane has a mortgage of $100,000, payable in 25 years at 7½% interest. The second house, at 500 Bay Lane, has two mortgages totaling almost $80,000, each for ten years at 6%. The presidential compound formed by the two houses is flanked by Nixon's friends. The ubiquitous Rebozo owns a house adjacent to the President's property. The house next to Rebozo...
...nearly five centuries, merchants and mariners have dreamed of opening a commercial sea lane across the top of Canada and Alaska. Venetian Explorer John Cabot, in search of a short trade route to the Orient, made the first unsuccessful attempt to sail through the frozen Arctic Ocean in 1498. Dozens of others-French, English and Portuguese-followed in his wake, but it was not until Norwegian Roald Amundsen piloted the small yacht Gjoa through the ice-choked waterway in 1906 that the Northwest Passage was finally discovered. Since then, only six vessels have completed the treacherous voyage, and the passage...
...feature film, The Learning Tree. "I try to start each scene with a beautiful still photo and end each scene with a beautiful still photo." Indeed, there are many images of startling beauty in Parks' film, like the dappled summer light shining through the trees on a country lane. The Learning Tree's major problem is not with pictures but with people...
...insisted that the car, which, like Kennedy's, had a license plate beginning with the letter L, came out of School Road, which leads to the cottage where Kennedy's party had taken place. The car then crossed the intersection, drove onto a farmer's dirt lane on the other side, and hesitated for a minute. Thinking the driver might be lost, Look, still dressed in his uniform, stepped from his own vehicle and walked toward the black car, which was about 70 ft. away. The driver of the car thereupon backed out of the lane onto...