Word: fed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...buried beyond reach. The real rulers of the jungle-matted minefields are the esmeralderos (emerald buccaneers); they buy and steal illegally mined stones, smuggle them out, engage in endless shootouts and wind up with most of the estimated $150 million that global sales of Colombian emeralds generate each year. Fed up, the government closed most of its money-losing mines last year and invited bids for concessions to operate its richest deposits. Not one company or consortium would touch the offer with a ten-foot pick, even though world demand for emerald jewelry has grown voracious...
...considerate. They have an array of revelations, some less startling than others, about American slavery. They say it was highly profitable, economically viable, and "35 per cent more efficient than the northern system of family farming." They also conclude that slaves were hardworking, members of solid families, and better fed on the average than Americans in 1879. So they begin their book of cliometric history (history based on statistical analyses) with a chapter of reassurance. "Some of the discoveries were at one time as unbelievable to the cliometricians as they will be to the readers of this volume," they explain...
...skills required to achieve them. Yet he had a fatal flaw too, an inability to tolerate criticism, an instinct to overreact in political combat. I don't know which came first, the liberals' loathing of Nixon or Nixon's loathing of the liberals, but the passions fed on one another, grew more and more bitter, until once he achieved the presidency, Nixon could not resist the urge to use his awesome powers to 'get' his enemies. A President sets the tone of his Administration...
Negotiators on both sides were getting snappish. "We are tired, beat and emotionally fed up," said one Israeli. "Kissinger has to keep up this absurd shuttle because those bastards don't want to talk to us. They seem frightened by the prospect of their own moderation-if it can be called moderation to take back land you lost in a war you started." Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, after a Knesset debate over his handling of the Palestinian attack on Ma'alot, stomped out of the Chamber, muttering audibly "I'm fed up with this government...
Raisins are more complicated: if you ate them in your dream, tough luck, because "you can expect a season of cash going out faster than it comes in." If you stuck them in your ear, for instance, or fed them to a janitor, you can count on "pleasant social times ahead." The entry under "Pickle" is more or less what the amateur would expect: "overall satisfaction with the general state of your life, love, and pursuit of happiness is forecast." "Petunia" shows a need for professional guidance. Growing outdoors, "these flowers signify pleasant friendly social affairs." A petunia indoors foretells...