Word: cold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...following morning some 120 workers had donned red-and-white caps in protest, and they were consequently kicked out into the cold. Most of the suspended Santas held a rally outside the plant, singing Jingle Bells and flaunting signs that read OKONITE, HUMBUG...
There is a strong romantic streak in Democratic politics, the quixotic Adlai Stevenson campaigns, for example, and John Kennedy's brief, shining Camelot. For the party that nominated William Jennings Bryan three times, choosing a candidate is not a cold calculation of self-interest but a leap of faith, an idealistic commitment. Hart creatively and perhaps cynically used this imagery in recasting himself as the ultimate guerrilla insurgent, scorned by his party and tormented by the press. Of course, some of this live-off-the-land posturing is preposterous. Hart squandered the strongest and most dedicated organization in the Democratic...
...entered the Korea Military Academy outside Seoul. There he befriended Chun Doo Hwan, who would later become South Korea's President. The two graduated in 1955, members of the first class to complete the school's new four-year program. The friends had different temperaments. Where Chun was cold, Roh was affable. Where Chun was imposing, Roh was self-effacing...
Reaction in the Vatican, which flatly opposes condom education, ranged from silence to cold fury. "I would hope they'd get the statement straightened out soon -- before Christmas," snapped a Curia staff member. If the Americans do not act, he vowed, "Rome will." But a ranking Vatican official said no quick response is anticipated. Pope John Paul's thinking may become known in February, when the first of several contingents of American bishops arrives in Rome for periodic in-person reports to the Pontiff...
...fine nose for moral rot. Of all the witnesses who have written memorably of Nazi evils, this retired chemist at a Turin paint factory was the most discriminating. His books Survival in Auschwitz, The Reawakening and Moments of Reprieve read as if revenge (a dish best eaten cold, advises the proverb) were a matter of patient qualitative analysis. In The Periodic Table (1984), Levi even used the known basic elements as metaphors for human characteristics. His Jewish ancestors from the Piedmont, for example, resembled argon: "Inert in their inner spirits, inclined to disinterested speculation, witty discourses, elegant, sophisticated, and gratuitous...