Word: fiercer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps, though, this pessimism is a bit fiercer than the situation deserves. If I could generalize about this new generation at all, I would call them the New Professionals. And I think it was precisely the changes brought by '69 that made this new professionalism possible. It is simply carrying on the personal business of Feminism that '69 outlined politically...
Midnight Call. At 9:39 p.m., reported TIME'S Joseph Fitchett, who was on the scene, muffled bursts of automatic-weapons fire came from inside the embassy and echoed over the neighborhood. The sandstorm grew fiercer and dogs howled as garbage cans were blown along the streets. A police officer suggested that the terrorists had just been shooting at a light accidentally played on them. But at midnight, a Sudan official called the U.S. Embassy and confirmed the fears of Mrs. Noel and Mrs. Moore, who had been waiting out the horror together: both their husbands were dead...
appetising to predators of a fiercer sort...
...lifting of the burden of a war mentality means more concentration on getting ahead within the system. Competition for higher education seems fiercer, especially among those trying to get into the Komsomol, the party youth organization, the traditional path to full party membership. Though long hair is still frowned upon, youth is becoming more individualistic. A friend claims that the students in one Moscow school got together and refused to wear the standard brown wool uniforms. "Now," he says, "they wear what they please." Communist Party membership is still the criterion for advancement, but a plan to issue new party...
Abdullah won the loyalty of this fierce, independent people by protecting them from the even fiercer Wahhabi tribes of neighboring Saudi Arabia with his British-trained Arab Legion. But the legion, under Sir John Bagot Glubb ("Glubb Pasha"), also imposed an ever-increasing degree of internal order, forbidding the gazu and destroying the tribes' stockpiles of arms. Civilization, in the shape of the road and the automobile, ended the demand for camels and forced the nomads to fold up their goat-hair tents and drift into towns and villages. Today the Beni Sakhr prosper by dealing in real estate...