Word: forthing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...storage tank. Apparently the pair would drive into a station, casually park over an unlocked underground tank and help themselves. On a smaller scale, thieves faced another kind of retribution. In the process of siphoning gas, they often ended up swallowing some of the gas that gushed forth. Cases of gas poisoning were up all over the country. In the Houston-Galveston area, they had jumped to ten a day from just one a year...
...first positive thing I have read on West Germany since I came to the U.S. as an exchange student. I usually read about how many people have visited the concentration camps during the past year, how many German war criminals have not yet been sent to prison, and so forth. To be sure, I don't want to gloss over all the things that happened in Germany during the years under the Nazis. I have to face my country's history...
With the fighting spread over a vast area, and with official information either unreliable or lacking, correspondents developed a cooperative news-gathering system of their own. They would venture forth in groups of three or four, attaching themselves to one faction or the other while they witnessed a few hours of combat. At the end of the day, they would return to the Hotel Inter-Continental in Managua, where all of them were staying, and pool what they had seen...
...first session was scheduled for two hours but broke up after only 85 min., since the two leaders needed less time than expected to spell out their differing world views. There was also what Powell called "a good deal of back-and-forth." At one point, Brezhnev and Carter engaged in a spirited exchange over which nation is spending more for weapons. The two leaders also expressed sharply opposed views about the world's trouble spots, including who was responsible for the turbulence in the Middle East and southern Africa. Finally, Brezhnev pushed his chair back from the table...
...attention. They are the fallen angels, now reduced to minding the machinery set in motion by God, whom they call Biology. As the enspirited cup moves among the capital letters on the Ouija board, their plea is spelled out: FIND US BETTER PHRASES FOR THESE HISTORIES WE POUR FORTH/ HOPING AGAINST HOPE THAT MAN WILL LOVE HIS MIND & LANGUAGE. Merrill modestly replies: "Today that's a responsibility/ Not to be faced." Then curiosity gets the better of him: "On with the history...