Word: cements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...character, personality and ability, and Washington left no doubt that Marcos was favored. In his ten months of command, Marcos has already defined and come to grips with the major problems outlined in his inaugural. Manila is overcentralized: the bulk of the nation's nascent industries (oil refineries, cement factories, textile mills, steel mills) are clustered around the city. Only half of the Philippines' 38,000 miles of roads are in drivable condition, and the Bureau of Public Works estimates that 5,400 miles more are needed to give the nation a minimal service network. Telephones are rare?and even...
...orders. The survivors, like men risen from the Inferno, recount horrors that, however familiar they may have become, still beggar the imagination with the terrible knowledge of what man can do to man. Those who lived draw word pictures of those who died: women whose wombs were injected with cement till they perished, naked men who were beaten bloody on the genitals, the beslimed piles of anonymous bodies in the gas chambers...
Many of the vignettes claw at the skin without reaching the heart. A few do both. There was the camp guard who became irritated at the sight of a little boy holding an apple. He swung the child against a cement wall and bashed out his brains. Then he contentedly munched the apple. The theater comes to be haunted with the screams of the tortured. The stench of death so invades the evening that the playgoer is often closer to choking than to crying...
...Torah by an injunction of Halakah, that vast body of law that regulates Jewish life with a sweep ranging from lofty ethical norms to small dietary injunctions. Halakah, which means variously "the law" and "the way" in Hebrew, is considered by many to be the essence of Judaism, the cement that for centuries enabled the Jews of the Diaspora to keep their covenant with the Lord. Yet today Halakah is the most divisive factor in Judaism, mainly responsible for the deep chasms that keep the world's Jews divided and often quarrelsome in their approach to their faith...
...truth: "He was never as far right as people said. And he isn't going as far left as people suggest." After all, reasons House Minority Leader Jerry Ford, "I don't think it's a great mark of character to put your feet in cement and then stand there...