Word: mainland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...almost all of the country's sponges were caught by its fleet. Then came a spectacular decline. The U.S. naval station closed, the cigar industry was lured to Tampa, blight wiped out the sponge beds, the city went bankrupt, and a 1935 hurricane ruined the railway from the mainland. Except for a momentary revival during World War II, when the naval station became important again, and in 1962, when troops rushed down during the Cuban missile crisis, the island languished as little more than a haven for those latter-day rumrunners, the drug traders...
Teng was also obdurate on the subject of Taiwan. Carter pressed him for explicit assurances that China would not use force to unify the island with the mainland. Teng refused, later telling reporters: "We will try our very best by peaceful means to bring about the return of Taiwan to the mainland ... If we are to commit ourselves to not using armed force at all, it would be the equivalent of tying up our own hands [in any negotiations with the Nationalists...
...MacDonald's, Inc., announces that it will expand its operations into mainland China at the beginning of April. Ray Kroc, the owner of the chain, reveals that in keeping "with the organization's tradition of offering regional specialties," the Chinese outlets will begin serving Egg McRolls and Big Maos...
Taiwan, in its belief that it will liberate the mainland, is "like somebody that's had a love affair and never gotten over it," Fairbank said...
...year's end Carter came close to achieving a triple crown in foreign policy: he established normal relations with mainland China and seemed to have a breakthrough on strategic arms limitations with the Soviet Union. But he failed to get Egypt and Israel to sign a peace pact, even though he had, almost singlehanded, brought them closer to peace at the Camp David summit than they had been in 30 years. His achievements were also somewhat diminished by the U.S. inability to help bring calm to Iran...