Word: actualized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rescue workers could only guess at the actual extent of devastation on the remote, snow-covered slopes 600 miles east of Ankara, though past experience with tremors in the earthquake-prone region has taught them to expect the worst. Last year a quake hit the area, leaving 3,000 dead. In 1939 another seismic catastrophe took 30,000 lives. This time more than 120 towns and villages were affected, some of them isolated by 8 in. of snow on the narrow mountain roads. In the settlement of Alikelle, only two people survived out of 70 families. In the town...
...American-born Chinese woman haunts a region somewhere between autobiography and fiction. Yet it hardly matters whether the woman who tells (or muses) the book's five stories is literally Maxine Hong Kingston. Art has intervened here. The stories may or may not be transcripts of actual experience. They are, unquestionably, triumphant journeys of the imagination through a desolation of spirit...
Wright offers no actual examples of a libertarian society in action, although he suggests that the Founding Fathers thought along somewhat libertarian lines and implemented many libertarian principles when they designed American government. The only attempt to set up a totally libertarian world occurred when a group of libertarians claimed a coral reef in the Pacific as their own nation, with hopes of filling in enough land to establish a tiny island-nation where a libertarian paradise could reign. Their hopes were demolished when an envoy of angry tribesmen from a nearby island informed them that the island was already...
...ordinarily ice, turn to water when I entertain political ideas (which do not entertain me). This is bad enough. But I frown when I must mingle with these unwelcome guests; words impressed into public roles are stained with brutality, lose their invisibilities, and are no longer parts of the actual brain. So I must divert attention from my innocent poem; but then I am hopelessly confused how to accomplish my other purpose...
Gould said yesterday that the odds against that result in actual research data are astronomical...