Word: eschew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dispute about the right of blacks not simply to eat at lunch counters but to sit down there with whites . . ." The interrelation of men and menus has filled hundreds of texts. But none of them have digested so many facts so well. Wittily, the authors explain why Muslims eschew pork (pigs would have been an ecological disaster in the Middle East) and why chicken soup -so-called Jewish penicillin-really does help to cure a cold (it comforts nasal passages). They show why Chinese drink no milk, discuss the Aztec hunger for human flesh (people who ate people were...
...squander; soon, its surreal quality will dissipate in a thick breeze. The files at OCS-OCL will translate into experience, grafted, crafted and carved by those who leaf through the binders. Aspire to a tome; accept a novelette. Hope that the thick breeze never loses its consequence, and never eschew the search
Such measures are wonderful ways to express our discontent with the way the world works, but they offer small and non-aligned nations no security and ultimately no guarantee that either big power will ever eschew the use of military force to overthrow legitimate governments...