Word: departments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they have shown an ability to adjust to their revisions, it is impossible to tell how much trepidation remains. As for the British troops, they are merely passing through town on the way to what threatens to be the bloodiest theater of an already too bloody conflict. When they depart, the people and animals of Port San Carlos will undoubtedly resume their quiet routines, but nothing will ever again be the same. Carol Miller, a former Port San Carlos resident now living in England, who guided the British military in their plans for the landing, described her home thus...
...they have close relatives in the U.S., if they worked for the American Government or pre-Communist regimes in their countries, or if they can prove they are political dissidents. In an explanatory message to the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva, the State Department argued that the U.S. does not have "an unlimited capacity to absorb all of those who depart their homeland in Indochina...
...ENTER TO GROW in wisdom, depart to serve thy "country and thy kind," the gates of the Yard command. "Expand thy ego ad infinitum, and clutter thy house with Veritas collectibles from the Coop," is the message that often creeps out from between the lines. And a lot of people buy the whole business, assuming that they have achieved the American dream merely by happing into John Harvard...
...Frogs opens on Dionysus and her servant, Xanthias, planning to depart for Hades. Depressed by an apathetic world, in Aristophanes' original they wish to bring back the playwright Euripides to wake the world with witty satire. Once in the underworld Dionysus realizes that the true artist. Aeschylus, can contribute much more passion and poetry than the humorist and decides that he will save the world by returning this writer to life. The modernized version replaces Euripides with George Bernard Shaw, and Aeschylus with William Shakespeare. But Sheevelove sticks closely to the rest of Aristophanes' script; even the scatological jokes...
...colonies remained cheerfully unaware of each other's existence for two years. When the British accidentally discovered the French, they ordered them to depart, but while the colonists elbowed each other, the Spanish argued that the Papal Line of Demarcation of 1492 had awarded the whole region to them. The French sold out to Spain for £24,000, and Port Louis was renamed Puerto de la Soledad. The British, expelled by Spanish troops in 1770 from Port Egmont, talked fiercely of war. Or at least some London politicians did; the government tried to calm the public belligerence by hiring...