Word: fritzes
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...discovery in World War I that scientific advances had also produced better engines of death and destruction turned speculation about the future excessively sour. Bellamy's radiant city became the high-tech slave societies of Yevgeny Zamyatin's novel We and Fritz Lang's silent film Metropolis. Aldous Huxley perfected the notion of dystopia in 1932 with Brave New World, and George Orwell weighed in with his haunting classic...
...Carter drones on, the delegates mill around on the floor like Boy Scouts at a jamboree or insurance salespeople at an annual get-together in Las Vegas. They trade signs. They trade Walter Mondale stories. ("When my mother was in the hospital, Fritz Mondale sent her the most beautiful letter. That man is a saint...
...march was organized by the MIT blackStudents' Union and residents of the chocolateCity dormitory there, according to Fritz N.Francis, one protest organizer
South Carolina Senator Fritz Hollings jumped on the Japan-bashing bandwagon in grand -- and tasteless -- style last week. Speaking to a group of workers at a home-state roller-bearing manufacturing plant, the loose-tongued 70-year-old Democrat said he had a message for Japanese officials who have questioned the competence of the U.S. work force. He advised them to think of the atomic mushroom cloud and recall that it was "made in America by illiterate Americans and tested in Japan...
Clinton's new enemy is apathy. "With someone like Mondale, you had a member of the congregation," says David Axelrod, a well-regarded Chicago-based media magician advising Clinton. "Fritz knew every significant Democrat personally and helped most of them at one time or another. Then, when he needed them, they were there. Clinton's just come to town, and the organizations have a lot of local contests they consider more important than the presidency. They're ( for Clinton on paper, but the question is whether they'll work hard enough to offset a surge by someone else...