Word: bazaar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Trying to look as if he were not eavesdropping, he wrote down practiced insults by old combatants at Darla's bar, in a town called Bazaar. She: "You're so dumb, if you fell in a barrel of tits you'd come up sucking your thumb." He: "You're so ugly we're all hoping that wind don't blow off your clothes." In the same town, he finds the spare, waste-no-words diary of 18-year-old Elizabeth Ann Mardin, a bride newly arrived in Kansas. For June 21, 1862: "I went a goosebarrying in the fore noon...
...whether he intended that merely as an act of intimidation or as a prelude to attack. Neither will technical spying prowess be able to predict popular uprisings like those that swept across Iran in 1979 or the Soviet Union this year. "You don't sense the mood of the bazaar from a satellite 100 miles in space," says George Carver, a scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies who was the CIA's special assistant to the director of Vietnamese affairs from 1966 to 1973. "To do that you need human beings in there mixing...
...experts at the CIA and Pentagon have lately been worrying about the much more plausible danger that Soviet tactical nukes, as well as chemical and biological weapons, might end up in the hands of secessionist rebels in the U.S.S.R. or shady merchants in the international arms bazaar. Still, American defense planners cannot entirely rule out the possibility that the Strategic Rocket Forces might pose a threat to the U.S. in the future, which is particularly uncertain in the case of the U.S.S.R...
...Jack Kemp praised Clean Sweep as a "model for the rest of the country." The operation has posted impressive results so far: the police confiscated 817 weapons last year and 214 in the first three months of 1991. But faced with a flourishing drug trade and an illegal-arms bazaar, the C.H.A. is fighting an uphill battle...
...start with the descent of American politics into a corrupt bazaar of special interest groups vying for power. The first and most important obstacle to Congressional approval of gun control legislation is the three million-member National Rifle Association, which, in the case of the Brady Bill, was able to kill a bill that enjoyed 95 percent approval in public opinion polls...