Word: figs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demonstration was sentenced to write a 1,500-word essay on civil disobedience, while a thief who stole some saddles from a farmer was made to raise a pig and a calf for his victim. One judge is even said to have sentenced a naked Frisbee player to plant fig trees in a park...
...from his previous position, but still wants to restrict Palestinian participation to those living in the West Bank and Gaza. Sadat insists on including those in the diaspora; otherwise, he argues, the problem cannot be solved "in all its aspects." The Aswan summit language, say the Egyptians, is the "fig leaf that Sadat must have if he hopes to make bilateral negotiations respectable in the eyes of his doubting fellow Arabs...
...Postal, schmostal. I don't care a fig about that. I've got something really big on my hands. This morning, my husband told me he is having an affair with the cleaning lady...
...Miss Stevens is at her best describing the physical and intellectual ventures of her father - the failed newspaper reporter, the awkward courtier, the relentless reader and overheated connoisseur of painting and music. As for the public burgher, he too is shown in seedling form, as an honorable 19th century fig ure who believed that there was some thing disreputable about a poet who did not earn his own living. It is only upon examination of the spark gap of fact into idea, or material into metaphor that the author is helpless. "I cannot explain the leap from juvenile verses...
...plan; specific discrepancies between its AA plan and the requirements of Revised Order 4; and cases of individual employees who have been victimized by either overt racial and sexual discrimination, or by employment practices which as a result discriminatory. The report, in effect, stripped away Harvard's liberal fig-leaf...