Word: handedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...question of one agenda interfering with the other, because whenever you have any minorities starting social and political action and no longer being passive about the issues, they will all contribute positively to the situation at hand," said Hilda Hernandez-Gravelle, assistant dean for race relations and minority affairs...
Angered, Boesman violently rips apart the shack he has built, just as the white men tore apart the couple's shanty on the day before. Then he is quiet, all energy spent. After a tense moment, Lena reaches out her hand to Boesman, takes her share of their belongings on her back and walks with him off stage...
...pages mirror my unsettled feeling. On one hand, we can read warnings from academics, hard-line Cold Warriors and eternal pessimists about how the demise of polarity could take us back to a Bismarckian Europe. But much more common, at least until the dust settles, are the jubilations over the domino theory in reverse. Every-where we're reminded what an exciting time it is to be alive...
...feel I could better appreciate the present if I had some first-hand knowledge of the past. I know it's self-centered, but try to understand my sentiments. It's just like conservative columnist George F. Will suggesting that we preserve communism in Albania "as a museum...
...century, when the bubonic plague ravaged Europe, Italian physicians wore an elaborate garb to protect themselves from infection. The outfit extended from head to foot and was made entirely of leather. A wide-brimmed hat kept the physician from the patient, and the doctors never touched the patients by hand. The suit also included a protruding beak stuffed with herbs to "purify" the air and separate the physician and the patient...