Word: mackellar
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Australians like to think they know the land they live on. The country's founding myths are built upon stories of creeks and billabongs and deserts. "I love a sunburnt country" go the lines of a beloved verse by poet Dorothea Mackellar, "A land of sweeping plains/ Of ragged mountain ranges/ Of droughts and flooding rains...
...high-tech warplanes to nations in troubled regions, yet few protest when America sells equally deadly technology. I hope the Defense Department will gape with the same horror if, in combat with an unstable Latin American nation, American planes encounter aircraft that are equally deadly (and American made). BRETT MACKELLAR Gaylord, Michigan
...three-quarters of the people live within an hour's drive of a beach. Sydney, built around three harbors, sometimes seems almost water borne. "All my students seem seduced by sport and sun," says a professor at the university in Perth, echoing the tribute of Poet Dorothea Mackellar to Australia as "the sunburned country...the wide, brown land...
Once at an investigation of Aubrey Williams' loyalties, Senator MacKellar stumbled over the word "symphony" and when it was explained to him, mumbled that he couldn't be responsible for knowing all this Communist terminology. The future of Harvard graduates in government jobs when such hatchet men get going, is a prospect interesting to contemplate...
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