Word: webbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while Eddie was killed in Vietnam, and how Eddie possibly fathered Ellen's child before he was killed. Watching the little girl now, William wonders, and finds it "not so simple now as then, not easy to be a part of Ellen without knowing or wanting to know the web our kisses make...
...second of four trials that Wilson faced on charges that he ran an international web of illegal arms deals and terrorist activities between 1976 and 1979. In November he was convicted by a federal jury in Alexandria, Va., of organizing the export of rifles and handguns to Libya. As he did in the first trial, Wilson's lawyer, Herald Price Fahringer, argued that the defendant was a "de facto CIA agent" working undercover to get secrets for his former employer from Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi...
...book's subtitle indicates, Caro believes the central fact of Johnson's life was his just for power. The author's careful research strips away the elaborate web of myth and half-truth that Johnson and his loyalists constructed to obscure his early life, evoking the heart-rending isolation and desperate poverty of his boyhood in the Hill Country of Texas. Through in-depth interviews with relatives and boyhood friends of the President, many of whom had never before talked with journalists or scholars. Caro create a picture of a boy seeking to escape early deprivations by any means possible...
Caught in the web of the tribal conflicts are the country's 170,000 whites, less than 3% of the total population of 7.5 million. Zimbabwe depends heavily on its skilled white workers, especially in farming and mining. But 42,000 have emigrated since independence, even though Mugabe has repeatedly assured them that they are wanted in Zimbabwe's multiracial society. Says a white farmer in Matabeleland: "The situation is more worrisome than it was during...
Throughout the 1960s, the Government marshaled extraordinary resources to accomplish a pair of Promethean feats: Americans were dispatched to the moon, and the country was overlaid with a brand-new web of nonstop superhighways. The space program remains a source of national pride. The Interstate Highway System? Most people take it for granted, except when they hit an unfinished stretch and find themselves rerouted along old, slow roads. Yet the Interstate has had a singularly profound effect on the way Americans live...