Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some people in the excited crowd clawed away bits of the gondola and even ripped off pieces of the balloon with their teeth to carry home as souvenirs. The Americans happily squirted the crowd with champagne. Said Abruzzo later: "We were so delighted to be on the ground again that the crowd looked good...
...spend $125,000 to cover the same ground in six days that thousands of airline passengers travel every week in a few hours? At a press conference, Abruzzo talked in much the same terms that explorers have used for centuries: "Unless frontiers are challenged from time to time-whether they be flying a balloon, breaking an altitude record in a plane or writing a fine piece of literature -we don't move forward as a society." And Anderson described the lure of ballooning: "There are no books or music up there, but there is the whole world...
Carter carefully chose his ground for making a stand. He did not really have to veto the $37 billion military procurement bill, which was an authorization for spending, not a final appropriation. He could have bargained with Congress for what he wanted before the final bill was passed. But he was determined to make a public issue out of the $2 billion nuclear aircraft carrier that Congress had included in the bill over his objections...
...used car lots, fast food restaurants and gas stations, leads to Graceland. By noon the rising temperature is well into the 90s and ambulances are carrying away those who have succumbed to the heat while crowding in front of the ornate plantation-style house. A brick wall on the grounds has turned into a "Wall of Love," covered with scrawled messages from admirers. Some of the fans have patiently endured the three-hour wait every day for a week so they can again and again walk up the shaded driveway, past rows of huge flower arrangements sent from all over...
...many years has been trying to "demonetize" gold-that is, end its use as a reserve asset-on the reasonable ground that the volume of world trade and investment should not depend on how much of a yellow metal can be dug out of the ground in South Africa. But the price rise is renewing gold's glitter in the eyes of central bankers. Australia, Italy, France and The Netherlands, all financial allies of the U.S., have revalued their gold holdings from the old official rate of $35 an ounce to the prevailing market price, thus multiplying the value...