Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inflation, income from tourism should have jumped. But it has declined steadily to $223 million last year. So far this year, it is running an estimated 7% below 1970. Prospects are even bleaker for the summer season, normally a busy period for Puerto Rican tourism. The once crowded, palm-fringed beaches near San Juan hotels are now lightly used and cluttered with litter; some are badly polluted. Warning signs along the Condado Lagoon tell swimmers to stay away...
...first Secretary of State to call on a nation with which the U.S. has no formal diplomatic relations; Nasser severed them in 1967. In Cairo, Rogers spent nearly seven hours talking with Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad and Premier Mahmoud Fawzi. Afterward, he spent an hour re laxing at the palm-fringed pool of the Nile Hilton Hotel. Refreshed by a night time visit to the Sphinx and the Pyramids, Rogers next morning met with Sadat for two hours and 45 minutes. Flying on to Israel, Rogers held two meetings with Premier Golda Meir and her advisers. Said one Israeli...
DRIVING south on Palm Sunday, most of us were a little frightened. We were heading toward Washington, and we planned to spend Holy Week fasting in the jails of the nation's capital...
...JOINED the other demonstrators for the first time at the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church for our own Palm Sunday evening worship service. Gene McCarthy and Pete McClosky were there as speakers...
...motorboat. Calley had just got up from a nap when Captain Brooks Doyle Jr., his young deputy military counsel, walked through the door. "They've got a verdict, Rusty," Doyle said. Calley stopped in his tracks, his face a mask of fear, his right fist pounding into his left palm. "So they're finally ready," he mumbled, turning into the bedroom to don his Army greens. Half an hour later, Calley walked shakily before the six-man jury, saluted and heard the verdict: on three counts, guilty of premeditated murder of at least 22 Vietnamese civilians; on the fourth count...