Word: bismarckers
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...accommodate the one-month schedule, the route of the Pacific passage was unkinked into a more or less straight line from Honolulu to Kavieng, on the northwest tip of New Ireland in the Bismarck Archipelago. Sealestial covered more than 3,500 nautical miles; ports of call included inhospitable Johnston Atoll, believed to be the site of a U.S. poison-gas depot, where even such minimum security risks as a former ambassador and the editor of the National Review were denied an overnight parking space...
...well, to be a part of this 350-year-old monolith. We wanted to join The Crimson or The Lampoon, to make the hockey team or the Dins, to learn something in school and write the greatest thesis since Henry Kissinger's gargantuan exploration of Bismarck's foreign policy (yes, everybody still talks about...
...center stage in George MacDonald Fraser's comic-historical novels of imperial adventure. Previous volumes placed Flashman, now a mature, hard-drinking rogue, in and around the Crimean War, the African slave trade and the American gold rush. With great panache he became involved with figures ranging from Bismarck and Abraham Lincoln to Queen Victoria and Lola Montez...
...Crimson in their Thursday feature on the South African Internship scheme sought to describe such people as "moderate," when in fact they represent some of the most dangerous elements in South Africa. Their role in sustaining Botha's rule is reminiscent of that of the German liberals towards Bismarck's regime: they are a "loyal opposition" which is unwilling to risk the loss of its social privilege by making real alliances for democracy with the majority. By being willing to participate in Botha's sick charade of democracy, they undermine the possibility of creating the South Africa dreamed...
...have never had a suit filed against them have difficulty if they are in a troubled industry. Day care has become a high-risk business because of sexual- abuse cases. Liquor stores have been denied coverage because they are sometimes liable for death and injury caused by drunken customers. Bismarck Food Service, which sells beer at Detroit's Tiger Stadium, saw its insurance bill increase from $50,000 in 1983 to $1 million...