Word: willow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bizarre attempts at sabotage are the latest in a series of attacks on Air Force bases in the U.S. that have authorities puzzled and worried. Saboteurs first struck last May when they cut the electrical conduits and hydraulic lines of three C-130 Lockheed Hercules transports at Willow Grove Naval Air Station, Pa. It took 3,000 man-hours to repair the aircraft at a cost...
...second time in eight months, China's aging leaders will gather this week at the now familiar willow-edged airport outside Peking to greet a traveler on a historic mission. Last February the U.S. President stepped out of Air Force One and totally changed the geopolitical shape of the world. This time the plane will be a Japan Air Lines jet carrying the leader of a country whose rivalry with China scarred Asia for the better part of the past century. The arrival of Japan's Premier Kakuei Tanaka in Peking, said China's Premier Chou...
They strung her up on the old willow across...
There is now a consensus that the concept symbolized by the Willow-brooks of the U.S. has failed on all counts, that even if more funds were available for them, they would merely become slightly less dismal warehouses for society's rejects. Nor are private institutions a feasible alternative for the vast majority of families; fees run from $3,600 to $8,000 a year. Most experts have concluded that all but the most seriously afflicted are best served by normal surroundings. This means living at home and having access to training and treatment, or living in small residences...
...audience concentrates instead on the imitations--Groucho Marx, Jack Benny, Shirley Temple and Donald Duck are numbered among this lord's disciples--and the song and dance routines. There is a soft-shoe number (Christ and Judas singing "All for the Best"), a Simon-and-Garfunkeler ("On the Willow," a hymn to crucifixion), and a nice example of that newest of song-types, revival rock ("Day by Day.") Although most of Stephen Schwartz's songs are interchangeable, Godspell avoids the free-formlessness of Hair. From the sight gags to the pantomimes to the chorus line kicks, each bit in this...