Word: crushes
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...Indians in South Africa against the state's apartheid laws, it skirts a key issue: what about the Africans? It turns out Gandhi's concern with racial discrimination was limited to Indians--in fact, he offered to organize a brigade of Indians to help the English colonial rulers crush an African rebellion. On a related note, we never see how Gandhi (Sergeant-Major Gandhi) earned a War Medal from the British Empire for valor under fire while assisting the violent suppression of South African Blacks...
...retribution. Somehow, one would hope and expect of a democracy that it not commit such atrocities as those committed in Lebanon to begin with. This hints at the inconsistency between Israel's simultaneous claim to status within the community of democratic nations and the determination of its leaders to crush, with violence if necessary, any institutional expressions of Palestinian nationalism. For invasions of Lebanon, or some equivalent, will probably be necessary as long as Palestinians aspire to nationhood, and as long as Israel refuses to come to grips with the reality and legitimacy of Palestinian national claims...
...such ineffable California experiences as sunset over a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway, but for a numbing schedule of dinners and plaque dedications. It is not easy being royal, but they can be expected to remain courteous and resolutely interested in the midst of celebrity crush and media uproar...
Many of those cookies may be washed down with P & G soft drinks. In 1980 the Cincinnati company bought the firm that makes Orange Crush and Hires Root Beer, and some industry watchers predicted that it was only a matter of time before P & G came out with a cola drink. Reason: colas account for about 62% of all soft-drink sales, and the conventional wisdom is that a company without a cola cannot make big money in soda...
Meanwhile, P & G is trying to put more fizz into sales of Orange Crush, an old brand that has garnered less than 4% of the soft-drink market. As it has done so often with detergents, the company is introducing a new, improved version of Crush with a more "orangy" taste. P & G is testing a series of TV commercials in which an E.T.-like visitor from outer space called Ozmo comes to earth to pick up a sample of the improved Orange Crush...