Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...door whips open. The jump master leans out the door, the wind kneads his face, ripples slowly run from the base of his nose to the bottom of his chin. He smiles, a grotesque smile with the wind flapping his lips at a palpitating rate, the setting sun giving them an orange-red glow. "Step out," he says. I move one hand out the door but it is forced back inside by the wind. I try again, grasping onto the wing strut. I force my feet out on the step, the first and last step, pivot, face forward and raise...
...rest of the independents, it was a disastrous outing. Incumbent Lawrence A. Frisoli lost badly, finishing 13th in the original count. Frisoli tried to build an electoral base on non-existent soil--disenchanted condo owners. They either don't exist or didn't turn out to vote. Leaders of the Concerned Cambridge Citizens (CCC), a group that published no stands on issues but whose candidates were mostly opposed to rent control, found the same hard fact--the traditional city voting blocs, be they liberal or ethnic, are very hard to penetrate. The only candidates useful as barometers...
...door. The effort among some independents to unite in the CCC was no real salve to their political wounds. And as Frisoli, who had the support of the old-line Frisoli-DiGuglielmo political clan proved, it is very, very difficult to carve out a new personal base...
...nation on earth has seen more suffering in the past decade than this once tranquil and fertile land. Though neutral in the early years of the Viet Nam War, Cambodia unwittingly became a base for the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese, and the target of savage U.S. bombings. Its popular Chief of State, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, was overthrown by Premier Lon Nol in 1970. Lon Nol was in turn deposed by Pol Pot when the Khmer Rouge, as the Cambodian Communist forces are called, took over the country in 1975. After four years of mass terror and murder under...
Saddam Hussein has frenetically tried to build up his personal image in the wake of the purge. His public activities are front-page news in the government-controlled press. His photographs are everywhere. This extravagant cult of personality seems designed to broaden the political base of the new President, particularly among bureaucrats made nervous by the "conspiracy." The President took steps to placate potential opposition within the government. He ordered large salary increases for bureaucrats, police forces and the army and announced plans for often postponed elections to a general assembly. If the carrot fails, Saddam Hussein certainly...