Word: compatriots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this tense atmosphere Kluckhohn and Murray found a compatriot with whom they launched a daring endeavor. In 1936, Talcott Parsons had moved into Harvard's Sociology Department after a stint in the Economics Department. Trained as a philosopher and intrigued by several fields within the social sciences, Parsons found his broad interest in the study of man in society stifled in the Economics Department. He wasn't much happier in Sociology. Together with Kluckhohn, Murray and several other scholars, Parsons began considering the benefits of creating a formal alliance of dissatisfied scholars...
...were quite dumb--"Did somebody hurt you once before?/ There are other friendships left for you to explore"--who could gainsay a band that sings songs with titles like "Hayride to Hell"? (This last song turned out to be a twangy number that, thankfully, bore no resemblance to the compatriot AC DC's "Highway to Hell...
...violence seems likely to mount: Colombia's drug kings have sworn to kill five Americans for every compatriot extradited to the U.S. They have even placed a $300,000 bounty on the heads of U.S. narcotics agents, dead or alive. "These are very tough and mean men," says a Panama City banker familiar with the drug trade. "If you attack their livelihood, they'll fight you until the death...
...nearly a thousand of these pages, roughly one-third of the total, have never before been issued in book form. What is more, the appearance now of this unfamiliar material reveals the Old Master in a new light: a great American novelist who wrote more superb criticism than any compatriot, before or since...
Each immigrant, whether he crossed the Pacific on a 747 or the Rio Grande on a compatriot's shoulders, is bristling with old-fashioned ambitions. Each harbors a plan, or at least the rough vision of a better life. More and more head for the new ethnic metropolis. "Los Angeles," says Rand Corporation Demographer Kevin McCarthy, "has become the natural embarkation point to the U.S. There's no-question that it is the new Ellis Island." L.A. has no central processing facility like Ellis Island, or any Pacific Coast Statue of Liberty, no romantic symbol for every country's immigrants...