Word: felted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long- standing rebel problem. Although the F.M.L.N. has fought the 56,000-man Salvadoran armed forces to a stalemate during nine years of civil war, it has accumulated no sustained political influence. Now, two months before presidential elections, the insurgents have hit on a way to make their presence felt in nearly every town and village...
...proud and powerful I.D.F. will, of course, survive. But the damaging consequences of this unwinnable war are already being felt. Middle-aged reservists trained to fight against tanks and grenades now chase children through the rubble-strewn alleys of refugee camps. When the taunts and the stones become unbearable, they open fire. "I don't feel that I'm fighting against Palestinian terrorists," says a 28-year-old reserve captain on duty in the West Bank. "My enemy is a twelve-year...
...beyond mobilizing around single issues such as campus security, Harvard felt the stirrings of more long-term feminist activism as a Women's Alliance formed to unite women's students groups on campus. The founders of the Women's Alliance have an issue--the lack of women on Harvard's faculty--but they say that the group will formulate its agenda around the broad spectrum of campus women's issues...
Another elite corps also felt the pressure of women's activism. The nine all-male final clubs once again were the object of debate in the dining halls and in the Undergraduate Council. This time around the council took a stand, calling on the clubs to admit women. Meanwhile, the gender discrimination suit against the Fly Club filed more than a year ago with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination dragged...
...more sensible or righteous than mountain climbing. There was an old gent in my town, died a couple of years back, who split and stacked huge piles of wood well past his 80th birthday. He had plenty of money and an unused oil furnace, but wood splitting felt right to him, made sense. For a time, during the trendy days of wood stoves, he was a hero. After wood stoves lost their vogue and he continued to split firewood, he was thought mildly eccentric. Then he died...