Word: gnash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like their more numerous Hispanic and Asian counterparts, the undocumented "new Irish" switch jobs often, worry about the costs of sickness without Medicaid, and can do little but gnash their teeth when family crises occur in their homeland, because to leave the U.S. might mean never to return. "You often find them trying to put on New York accents while they serve you in a restaurant, just so they can meld into the background and not be found out," says Ray O'Hanlon, the national editor of the New York City-based Irish Echo newspaper. "This is rather...
...dream: The prospering American family gathers at its bright windows to peer outside. There, in the dusk, the streets are clogged with trade-crazed foreigners, Brazilians burdened down with shoes, Koreans with shirts, Japanese revving their Hondas, bearing a million videotape recorders on their heads. The foreigners wail and gnash their teeth as they hurl their inventories against the impenetrable American trade barriers. The American economy waves smugly to the rest of the world, then settles in to savor a bit of roast beef and full employment...