Word: childes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky long ago portrayed "violence, alcoholism and sex" in Russian life. Wife beating and child and animal abuse, as well as the pathological patterns studied by Soviet Dissident Mikhail Stern, filled Dostoyevsky's books, giving readers a grim and apparently still true portrait of Soviets at work and play...
...unusual to see a Kurdish woman dressed in an elaborately embroidered homespun costume going about her chores with a child on one hip and a Kalashnikov rifle on the other. "We've got the will to fight," says one woman, patting her weapon affectionately, "and the means." The men are walking arsenals, with guns and cartridge belts at their hips and hand grenades dangling in leather pouches at their sides. Tucked away in the hills and valleys is heavier equipment, including machine guns, antitank weapons and artillery...
...income during election year 1980-to the nation's farm lands. Over the next 14 months, the U.S. will sell the Soviets 10 million metric tons of wheat and another 10 million metric tons of corn; the wheat alone is enough to provide every Soviet man, woman and child with almost 100 1-lb. loaves...
...even so, in the process many a burnished and beloved phrase has been edited flat or cast into outer darkness. In the marriage service, "till death do us part" becomes "until we are parted by death." In the renovated baptism, the priest will no longer pray that the child be given strength to defeat "the devil, the world and the flesh...
BORN. To Donny Osmond, 21, co-host of TV's Donny & Marie show, and Debra Glenn Osmond, 20: a son, their first child; in Provo, Utah. Name: Donald Clark...