Word: sahara
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...needs is 88 acres of corn and a few cows. Somebody ruined a good farm." That zinger gained Hill, the second highest money winner on the tour last year with earnings of $156,423, another $150 fine for conduct unbecoming a grump. After blasting their way out of a Sahara of sand traps in the first round, some players were also ready to blast Jones for the 40 m.p.h. winds that caused such stars as Arnold Palmer, Gary Player and Nicklaus to shoot 79, 80 and 81 respectively. Said Lee Trevino: "If anyone shoots 281 on this course, the Pope...
...Experience in the West Indies and Latin America, which examines the effects of slavery on contemporary social and cultural patterns among blacks of these regions. Students can choose AAS 31: History of African Art, which examines primarily the geographical, anthropological, and historical background of African art south of the Sahara; or AAS 33: Afro-American Letters and Thought 1914-32, which examines black intellectualism of this period...
...Webb Corp., the Phoenix-based construction company, owns the Sahara and the Thunderbird among others; its casinos are thriving, though its stock has dropped from 23⅝ in 1969 to 10¼ last week. Contributing to the decline was a scandal that surfaced last month, when a Webb subsidiary sued the estate of a deceased Sahara official for $500,000 that he was alleged to have siphoned out of the casino. Investigations have uncovered evidence of blackmail and possibly murder...
Garros' sector, just south of the Sahara, is occupied by descendants of the same Moslem fanatics who killed General Charles George ("Chinese") Gordon in Khartoum 85 years ago. A Sudan-based outfit called the Chad National Liberation Front (FROLINAT) claims credit for the current insurrection. French-educated François Tombalbaye, the only President this ten-year-old country has ever had, dismisses the insurgency as mere banditry. In fact, it has racial and religious overtones. Moslem emirates in the north ruled Chad before the French conquest, and the black, predominantly Christian Sara tribesmen in the south were their...
...next total solar eclipses will occur in 1972 over northern Canada, and in 1973 over the Sahara desert...