Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never realized the strategic implications of Berlin till I studied Robert M. Chapin's educative diagram. A glance at that map tells more than pages of writing...
...Pekin, on the Illinois River. The place had been known as Townsite. When the citizens could not agree on a new name, they asked the wife of a local army major to make the choice. She took a map, traced her finger along between the 40th and 41st parallels till she came to a likely name. It was Peking, China. Translated to Pekin, it calls itself "the Celestial City," sports a Chinese dragon in its parades. The high school football team is dubbed, naturally, "the Chinks...
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...Everything is fine, friends," said Gagarin, Russia's first spaceman, from the ground station. "Congratulations. Till we meet on the earth...
...remain in the orbit of the free world. "We are pro-American," he said staunchly. But he ducked questions about possible trade and diplomatic relations with Cuba, only 90 miles to the north. Perhaps he had in mind an old Jamaican proverb: "No cuss alligator' long mout' till you cross riber...