Word: crude
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with similar victories, Robertson's local organizers were able to attract Iowans who had not been politically involved. A year ago, a crude instruction sheet called the "Christian Political Action List" advised new activists to "hide your strengths" and "pretend to be interested" in general party business. Much of the missionary work was done in evangelical churches, particularly those with Pentecostal practices.* Typical was Debi Nuhn, a teacher who had come 250 miles with her husband Tom and other members of the Word of Life Christian Church. Like Robertson, she said, members of her charismatic congregation were "born-again...
...chauvinistic in the worst "ugly-American" sense in its crude mockery of the ritual language of one of the Black minority religions discussed in my course. I urge you to contemplate the reaction of the Harvard community to an article written by a Black West Indian student which began with a contemptuous jeering at the beliefs of the Jewish or Catholic faiths...
...world disturbed by cold war ultimatums and distracted by Camelot dazzle, Bond gave the traditional action hero modern attitudes and equipment. He brought a killer's lightning instincts to Sherlock Holmes, a suave caress to crude Mike Hammer, the microchip age to Dick Tracy's gadgets. His films were comic strips with grown-up cynicism, Hitchcock thrillers without the artistic risks. He was an existential hired gun with an aristocrat's tastes -- just right for a time when class was a matter of brand names and insouciant gestures. "My dear girl," Bond tells a new conquest, "there are some things...
...would consumers, of course. The new regulations would increase the amount of crude oil needed to make gasoline and thus boost costs for refiners. Thomas estimates the additional cost to be $450 million a year, or 1/2 cent per gal. at the gas pump. But oil companies say the burden would be more like $2 billion. The second proposal would require automakers to enlarge the charcoal canisters that are placed inside gas tanks to reduce the emission of fumes. Thomas says this modification would add only $19 to the sticker price of a typical car, but automakers argue that...
...America. Says Father Olivares, one of the leaders in the movement to provide sanctuary to the refugees: "My feeling is that it has to be directed from El Salvador because of the tactics, the methodology, and because it is impossible to believe that anyone living here could think these crude tactics could work in the U.S." California Democrat Don Edwards, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights, has launched a congressional probe into purported reprisals against Central American dissident groups. Says Edwards: "It is clear that all of the break-ins were against those opposing the Administration...