Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mike Morita, who owns a home near Honolulu but not the land beneath it, is predictably pleased. Said he: "I have three kids, and I'd like to turn property over to them...
...minorities, open-minded, compassionate--in a very general sense, 'liberal.' No such thing today. There is a fear, an insecurity and an impatience with government that makes these embattled middle-class people lecry of any suggestion that they be called upon to make sacrifices for the people economically beneath them. For the most part, this group would not even understand that the recent closing of a "white" school in Rosedale was required by the Constitution. They oppose busing, period...
...past year, at least 90 citizens lave been killed by police and armed vigilantes; others have simply disappeared. The jails in Mdantsane, Ciskei's largest settlement (pop. 250,000), are often woefully overcrowded. During one state crackdown, police were reduced to holding 80 inmates inside a small room, beneath the stands of the central stadium, without food, water or toilets. Many detainees have also, it is said, been tortured or raped. Late last year the U.S. State Department warned Americans not to visit Ciskei because "public order appears to have broken down...
...create what it hopes will become a living museum stretching 60 miles along the length of the invasion beaches. Last year about 1.5 million visitors, almost half of them Americans, stopped to gaze at the 172-acre U.S. cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer, where 9,386 soldiers are buried beneath an immaculate lawn. The sheer multitude of white crosses and Stars of David, arranged in neat rows that undulate over the green expanse, forces a hushed reverence, even on buses filled with students born long after the event. Caen Mayor Jean-Marie Girault points out that a high proportion...
...Here's to the substance beneath the surface. To the true color of the spirit rather than the color of the package." A noble sentiment, certainly. But when the speaker is Joan Collins, 50, one cannot help wondering: Is her television alter ego, Alexis Carrington, merely engaging once again in deceitful discourse for the sake of her own naughty ends? Not this time. The scene is from Blondes vs Brunettes, an ABC-TV special to be aired next week, which features TV's brunet queen meanie, Collins, and Morgan Fairchild, 34, a blond TV vixen. In one skit...