Word: sierras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Their Lives. Under the ceaseless pounding of last week's wind-whipped rains, dams burst, quiet rivers turned into leaping furies and swept beyond their banks, the melting snows of the Sierra and other western ranges poured relentlessly into the valleys. One place alone - Blue Canyon in the High Sierra -got a torrential 24.67 in. of rain in five days. Whole villages disappeared, homes and bridges toppled, and the streets of cities and towns became ca nals as thousands upon thousands of refugees, aided by disaster rescue crews, ran for their lives...
Even if Martinez Sanchez had not attempted suicide-or, as rumor had it, been shot during a scuffle in the presidential palace-his summary dismissal from office would have been dramatic enough. A protege of Raul Castro, Fidel's brother, he fought at their side in the Sierra Maestra hills, became Defense Minister in Fidel's first Cabinet, was named Acting Prime Minister when the Maximum Leader came to New York in May 1959. That October, Martinez was named Labor Minister and assigned the task of purging Cuba's strongly anti-Communist union leadership. He succeeded...
...than they did a year ago, that 35% have no strong feelings, and that 30% believe that "time is healing the wound." Nearly five-dozen books about Kennedy or his assassination are on the market. West Germany proudly issued a new J.F.K. postage stamp last week, but tiny Sierra Leone had already achieved an insurmountable lead in that category by printing 14 different Kennedy stamps in the last year. A bronze bust of Kennedy by Sculptor Felix de Weldon, who did the massive statue of the Two Jima flag raising for the Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington...
...Even though, by latest count, 15 other African countries have TV. Among them: the ex-French Congo, Gabon, the Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, the Sudan, Uganda...
...Sierra Leone dating is something of a sport, to outwit one's very vigilant parents. An Egyptian boy agreed, adding that class time was prime dating time, since a couple could go off and return, making believe that they had been in school...