Word: greened
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like the West hasn't dealt with this problem before. There have been murderers, there's been segregation and there have been those who have rejected the fundamental ideas that make the family of Western nations the most liberal and free among all the peoples on this great green globe of ours which we swear to protect, preserve and make peaceful. Why won't South Africa budge? Don't they care about Reagan's threats to expel them from the West...
After the Houston Rockets lost the National Basketball Championship to the Boston Celtics, my fellow Texans and I felt a little green...
...product that could save some of those lives: disposable alcohol detectors designed for use by consumers. One device, called BreathScan and manufactured by Denver-based Prescott Technologies, is a 3-in. tube filled with yellow crystals. A motorist blows into the tube and if the crystals turn blue-green, knows that he is too intoxicated to drive safely. Such gadgets were invented years ago but have been sold almost exclusively to police departments and other institutions. Within a month, though, Prescott Technologies plans to sell the BreathScan for $1.59 in supermarkets, pharmacies and liquor stores nationwide. A competing product...
...Deadpan Facetious style. A Frisco truck driver (Kurt Russell) and his Chinese-American pal (Dennis Dun) amble into a battle beyond death fought by a 2,000-year-old bad guy (James Hong) and a Yoda-esque mensch (Victor Wong). In this Temple of Doom there are girls with green eyes and beasties with red ones; the sword- flashing legerdemain and wind-whipping backflips of martial-arts movies; a tough guy who literally explodes from rage when his master dies; oh, and a giant uggy insect in the caverns under Chinatown...
...National Party, Suzman continued caustically, every Nationalist M.P. should be obliged to attend a black funeral "disguised as a human being." In that way, they might "get some idea of the intensity of feeling, of the heavy tide of resistance sweeping through the townships, instead of sitting on their green benches in Parliament, insulated like fish in an aquarium...