Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recently arrived, such as Wolfe Tone, Robert Emmet and Parnell, and from people rich and secure enough to take chances. The English habit of stuffing their problem island with Britons kept backfiring in this way. After a generation or so, the new settlers were Irish themselves, ready for a fresh fight...
Every visitor wants the Irish to stay the way they are. But the younger Irish have known for some time that this depends on remaining outside history; that the culture which has been mummified so long, and looks so fresh, may well crumble at the first blast of fresh air. There are parts of it they would not half mind losing, the strengths and weaknesses being so inextricably entwined...
Immense Pressures. Israeli officials are convinced that while the fedayeen are constantly trying to build up fresh cells of supporters among Arabs in Israeli-held territory, most of them can be quickly broken up. Still, the fedayeen thrust continues. There are armed incidents almost every day and the guerrillas come with better equipment and more spirit than they showed a year ago. Two recent attacks on fortified Israeli positions were led by officers-a rare event in the past. Earlier this month, in a well-planned strike, half a dozen guerrillas belonging to the Popular Front for the Liberation...
...free to deputize onlookers, who will automatically be guiltless if any person present is subsequently killed or wounded, provided no malice or premeditation is involved. The law allows officers to cordon off any area, prohibit the sale of guns or alcohol, impose curfews, and enter private dwellings when in fresh pursuit of a rioter or when searching for firearms or explosives. Violation of any orders under the law can mean a fine of $500, six months in jail, or both...
Studying, the activity that this world wants her to want to do, might be a way of climbing out into some sort of fresh air and freedom. But the interruptions and the noise that make dorm life what it is make studying impossible. The constant noise creates a constant non-transcendant now and here. The roar of meals, the music other people use as futile anodynes for the same conditions, the telephones, the feet, the piano in the lower regions, the voices and the plumbing make the space she is sitting in come alive as a huge, swaying, indifferent body...