Word: crowe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...magnificently magenta; it glowers over the forest with flashing threats of lightning. You could count the night stars, the fireflies, the dewdrops, the hairs on a lady mouse's arm. The wisest, oldest owl peers omnisciently from his sepulcher of cobwebs. A clumsy crow trips over his own feet and executes a dazzling arabesque. Genius-IQ rats, escapees from deadly experiments at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), live in an underground palace as glimmering and precise as the Wizard's wonderful Oz. Our heroine, the lady mouse Mrs. Brisby, enlists the rats' aid to save...
Chief Frank Fools Crow and his wife Katy live in an aging one-room house on the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation in western South Dakota Although conditions have improved on Pine Ridge since the 1973 Wounded Knee uprising, many of the problems which led to the takeover still persist More than 60 percent of the reservation Sioux are unemployed. The Fools Crows, like most families, do not have running water or central heating, though they are among the minority who have electricity...
Although Vine Mae chose to remain on the reservation despite the dearth of jobs, many of Fools Crow's other granddaughters leave every fall in search of employment in off-reservation cities Barbara Rock. Fools Crow's 29-year-old grand daughter, has chosen this option, she lives and works off-reservation most of the year, as she has since she ran away from a reservation-based Catholic boarding school at 14. Most summers, though, when the one-room log cabin behind her grandparents' house is habitable, she returns, as do many of the grandchildren and great-grandchildren living...
...fashioned Trade Follows the Flag sort, or the post World War II brand which held that anyone asking for liberty was a puppet of either the CIA or the Kremlin. or the new IMF. "Make the world safe for Alcoa!" sort. There's racism-from slavery to Jim Crow to Bob Jones University, a racism so strong that in this country, even in the wake of the 60's. Black men make less compared to while men than they did a decade ago. There's corporate power and avarice, from feudalism through the Pullman strike and on to the "hogs...
...last official institution with any popular trust. That is finished now. Even the cowed population of Warsaw openly shows its hatred. Obscene gestures are made at passing armored columns. The Poles have taken the acronym of the ruling military council WRON, and added an A to produce WRONA, crow in Polish. "Crow" was what Poles called the Gestapo during the Nazi occupation, after the stylized eagle on the Gestapo emblem. Silhouettes of crows are popping up around Warsaw, and swastikas are being drawn on the frosty windows of the capital's overcrowded buses...