Word: forthing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...once regarded their former Prime Minister, Norman Manley-who died in 1969-as a kind of Moses who helped lead them to the promised land of independence ten years ago. Now they see his son as an appropriate successor. Addressing the massive rally. Prime Minister Michael Manley, 48, set forth what has become a chief theme of his young government: "What freedom really confers is the opportunity to be totally responsible for one's own fate...
They are either glowingly optimistic or they are intensely pessimistic. There is no tragic sense of endurance and strength. That comes from a more cyclical and spiraling vision of history that doesn't flip back and forth between this kind of shallow optimism and shallow pessimism. It has a greater sense of the realities of human strength and growth...
...poltergeist had suddenly gone on a global rampage. At higher latitudes, large glowing streaks and patches of light appeared in the nighttime sky. Short-wave radio communications were disrupted, compass needles danced dizzily back and forth, and utilities braced for stray surges of current that could knock out their power lines. Even the navigational ability of pigeons was believed to be temporarily impaired. These strange doings were not the work of an earthly ghost, but had their source in very real events occurring some 93 million miles away. With no forewarning, the sun underwent a series of violent eruptions that...
This band drinks coke onstage. Timmy Schmit brings forth his daughter before the encore and introduces her. His wife watches the baby in her stroller throughout "El Tonto...
...while still remaining his own independent man. The shadow is not easy to shake. A few years ago, in an effort to inspire one of his five children to work harder at his studies, Shriver explained that "when Abraham Lincoln was your age, he walked twelve miles back and forth to school every day." "That's nothing," the boy replied. "When Uncle Jack was your age, he was President of the United States...