Word: devourer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bomb blast at the Prime Minister's office was a severe, though not necessarily a mortal, blow to the beleaguered regime of the autocratic, 81-year-old Khomeini. But it was the most convincing evidence yet that as Iran's revolution continues to devour itself, the nation may be moving toward civil...
Jungle of Cities gestates the propositions that later became Brecht's babies. Mammon is God. Men and women buy, sell and devour one another, and freedom and free will are mocking mirages. The bleak isolation of existence governs all: "If you stuff a ship with human bodies till it bursts, there will still be such loneliness in it that one and all will freeze...
...family cooking responsibilities are his, and he bakes munchies for weekly proctorial study breaks. He says that he "enjoys tinkering with bicycles," and confesses, "I am a news freak. I just devour magazines and newspapers...
There are only a few distractions that can divert the Bushmen from a guerrilla's trail. An entire unit will come to a halt to collect and devour the honey from a wild-bee comb in a tree, for instance. And the presence of a hyena anywhere in the vicinity is likely to bring on inexplicable and uncontrollable fits of derisive laughter from the Bushmen. Otherwise, they have won the respect of their South African officers. "They've taught me what survival means," says one. "For all their small stature, they can put some of our big stocky...
...tightening money supply, and policing the trade unions. Although some portions of British Aerospace and the Post Office have been turned over to private industry, not enough other industries have gone back to the farm. British Leyland and British Steel--the latter losing over $1 million a day--still devour large chunks of British taxpayers' pounds. "No public enterprise anywhere ever made profits," he declared...