Word: sun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...morning sun the helicopters come, flying at treetop level to avoid the treacherous downdrafts in Mexico's rugged, majestic Sierra Madre Occidental. A copter scarcely touches down before soldiers leap out, their Belgian FAL rifles at the ready. The troops belong to a 2,300-man special force drawn from the best units in the Mexican army. They are carrying out a mission, code-named "Operation Condor," that began last month. Their enemy is an empire where marijuana grows by the acre and the blood-red amapola poppy-the opium plant-flourishes...
...signing was Tyler, Kissinger's yellow Labrador, who chomped on the champagne cork that Arthur H. Thornhill Jr., chairman of Little, Brown, helped pop to celebrate his company's coup. Afterward, an ebullient Henry and Wife Nancy flew off to Acapulco for three weeks in the sun...
...ancients believed that weather changed at the whim of the gods, and Homer's Odyssey contains several references to storms raised against Odysseus by a wrathful Poseidon. Modern-day meteorologists have established that earth's weather stems mainly from the sun. Each day radiation equal to some 17 trillion kilowatts reaches the earth's atmosphere from the sun and warms the planet, particularly around the equatorial regions, where this radiation strikes more directly than it does at the poles...
...boat-a sea scalloper--comes into the market with any regularity. Men warm themselves by fires on the street corners and early risers pick their way around puddles and stacks of cartons, and stuff fish scraps into brown shopping bags. Strings of lights outline the Brooklyn Bridge until the sun rises and the surrounding skyscrapers emerge by degrees from the darkness...
...principal economic exploitation of South Korea is Japanese, but there are also multiple links with American business. Bob Dorsey, the former Chairman of the Board of the Gulf Oil Company testified to a Congressional committee that Gulf contributed $4 million to two of Park's presidential campaigns. Park Tong Sun, who seems to have principally directed the bribing and subversion of American Government officials in Washington, claimed recently that Gulf was paying him $1 million a month; Gulf's immediate response was that it could not have been that much. Park's family distributes Gulf oil products and runs...