Word: anteing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Republican National Guard. Less than three hours after the aerial attack, Premier Vasco dos Santos Gongalves announced that the coup had been crushed. That night President Francisco da Costa Gomes denounced it as "a reactionary adventure" designed to disrupt the forthcoming elections and named his old friend, former President António de Spínola, 64, as its leader...
...movie catches very well the bustling claustrophobia of small-time crime. Cooper, his underlings, even the representatives of the higher echelons, all look like creatures in an ant farm, moving fast, even over the bodies of others, constructing and rebuilding a closed world. There is always danger of betrayal in this life. Cooper has mastered enough subtleties of street intrigue to start feeling threatened by them. The deal for the warehouse block is not going well. He knows that his future and probably his life depend on what is termed "the successful completion of negotiations...
...issue is not spiritual it is nuts and bolts. Do not stone the buses. Build better schools. People do not have to like each other, a little respect is all that is needed. But nobody wants to assume that load, so the brunt of it falls on the schoolchildren. Ant they are far too mutable to support...
Immanuel Kant was a real piss-ant...
Portugal's fragile revolutionary government was still intact last week following ten days of political tensions that threatened to bring the country to the brink of civil war. Nonetheless, it had lost its first hero and a good deal of its innocence. General António de Spínola, 64, the hero-general of the Portuguese revolution, split with the young leftist officers who engineered the April coup and resigned as provisional President. In an emotional farewell address on television, Spínola criticized many of the government's policies and warned that they would result...