Word: walle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wall of Democracy...
After reading "Justice's Wall," about building a fence between parts of the U.S. and Mexico [Oct. 30], I'm having trouble determining which side of the fence the barbarians are on. Have we decided to protect ourselves from the world, or the world from us? Will our next step be two hundred yards of minefield next to the fence...
...what shall we call this wonder that would make Brezhnev and company envious? How about the Great Wall of Democracy or the Great Wall of "Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor...
...wrong with him except he's drunk by noon every day of his life," laments Schmidt to Roueché after his dinner has been interrupted by a would-be patient. "Goddamned people in this town who think I'm like that light switch over there on the wall. Switch it on. Day or night. Rain or shine. And I'll come running...
Bursting out of a squall at 16 knots, a vast wall of steel pulverizes a small sailboat and steams blithely on. The million-ton megatanker Leviathan, biggest moving object on the face of the earth, leaves Peter and Carolyn Hardin floundering in the chill Atlantic. He survives; she does not. Dr. Hardin is ravaged by the death of his wife and half crazed over his inability to win redress or even acknowledgment of what he regards as murder. But he is rich, a skillful sailor and a brilliant technician. In another boat, a 38-ft. sloop he renames Carolyn, equipped...