Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lesniks, a small tribe of hunter-gatherers, have been conquered by a marauding band of Poles, whose leader, Krol Rudy, wants to establish an agricultural base to feed his vision of a unified Polish nation. Those Lesniks who escaped the butchery of the invasion hide in the neighboring mountains, gathering strength for a counterattack. But Cybula, their elder, receives a peace offering. Cybula has his doubts, not only about his enemy's intentions but about the new way of life posed by the prospect of tilling the fields: "It was not necessary to tickle and scratch Mother Earth to make...
Sergeant Viktor Nazaro, 23, a Ukrainian from Uzhdano, was captured by the Afghan insurgents while serving with a reconnaissance unit in the northern town of Kunduz in 1984. Private Leonid Vilko, 24, a Moldavian stationed at Bagram air base north of Kabul, was taken prisoner the same year while trying to defect to the West...
...allow the elderly or the childless exemptions from such taxes would undermine both the financial and moral base for the education system. The belief in public education as an important democratic value has persisted because as a nation we recognize the importance of education's role in developing an intelligent and well-informed citizenry. It's part of the social contract that holds this nation together...
...learned that as a basic axiom of politics, you always solidify your base at the beginning of the campaign and then you move out to gain supporters in sympathetic groups," said Bruce Bolling, president of the Boston City Council and former state chairperson of the Jackson for President Campaign. "A campaign with an almost solitary emphasis on Reagan Democrats was a failed strategy...
...Ever since the first baseball broadcast, fans have said, 'That bum doesn't know what he's talking about. I can do better than that,' " says Fantasy founder Fred Greene, 33, a rabid A's fan who last season brought his dream to life in a box overlooking first base at the Oakland Coliseum. For $50, any Tom, Dick or would-be Harry Caray can announce a full inning of baseball with all the electronic panoply of a network broadcast booth. And this year for the first time -- at a premium of $75 -- you can do an inning...