Word: rovers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...size train to come. When that vehicle, powered by a steam locomotive, gets under way, it will be carrying such diverse samples of the national heritage as the first Bible printed in the U.S., George Washington's copy of the Constitution, a slave bill of sale, a lunar rover and a copy of the Louisiana Purchase deal...
...schedule, and with only a single tragic incident-four Austrian soldiers of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force were killed when their Land Rover exploded a mine-Syria and Israel last week completed the separation of forces specified by their cease-fire agreement. Syria recovered not only all the territory it lost in the October fighting, but also Quneitra, the Golan Heights provincial capital that Israel has held since '67. The recovery of the ruined city-a symbol of Damascus' determination to win back all the land it lost to Israel in the Six-Day War-touched...
Jones catches some moments that have the unmistakable tang of spontaneity: a band of poachers being rooted out, for instance, or an elephant attacking a Land-Rover. These are infrequent, however, and when they do occur are likely as not to have an expository fillip. The feature-length movie is much taken up with wild-animal footage. It was probably intended to convey a notion of the primitive majesty Ross was leaving behind, but after a while it comes to seem like padding, like rather elaborate vacation footage. A true or deep sense of this land, of the people...
With practiced aplomb, Harold Wilson last week took charge of Britain as if he had been swept into power by a landslide. Shortly before 8:30 last Monday night, a black Rover drew up in front of No. 10 Downing Street; the crowd that had gathered outside gave an approving cheer. Pausing on the doorstep, the new Prime Minister impatiently waved aside the applause. "We have a job to do," he said in his flat Yorkshire accent. "We can only do it as one people, and I am going right in to start that...
Coatless in a raw February wind, the Prime Minister hoisted himself onto the back of a green Land Rover in the courtyard of the North Ealing Conservative Club. The wind had long since whipped the hand-lettered WELCOME TED HEATH sign from the club's red-tiled roof, but his audience of 150 constituency workers loyally shivered through Heath's homiletic. Winding up the set-piece campaign talk, he proclaimed that thanks to the oil that will be gushing from the North Sea before the end of the decade, "we are going to be one of the fortunate...