Word: harvester
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Though I can't speak for other campus activists, I can only give Joseph my heartfelt apology that racism, murder, the separation of families and all the bitter harvest of apartheid, bore him, or even put him to sleep. It's ironic that Joseph should charge that "complaints rarely move beyond the whining stage," when he has given us a piece of infantile whining rarely matched even in the Crimson...
Consider Chernobyl. Had this misfortune occurred in the Stalin era, I am sure that our press would have immediately hinted at the possibility of an American conspiracy. That was the case in the early postwar years when a poor harvest in the Ukraine was blamed on Americans who supposedly conspired to put Colorado beetles into the fields. But our press did not make a secret of Chernobyl. Those responsible for the tragedy have been identified. Chernobyl has been opened to foreigners, including the American Dr. Robert Gale...
Even before last week's grim harvest of hostages, the roster of those already held captive in Lebanon consisted of five Americans, five Frenchmen, two Britons, an Italian, an Irishman, a South Korean and a Saudi Arabian. Last week Vice President George Bush confirmed that another American hostage, CIA Beirut Station Chief William Buckley, was killed last year by his captors. Anderson and Sutherland were abducted in the spring of 1985 by Shi'ite radicals. Their captors' principal demand: the release of 17 presumed Shi'ites who are serving prison sentences for, among other things, terrorist attacks...
...pens and knowledgeable left hand, Bidemmi gives those scenes an optimistic glow, heightened by a metaphor: cherry pits. Everyone in the neighborhood, including a pet parrot, eats cherries. The seeds are scattered in the hope that one day there will be a whole orchard on Bidemmi's block, with harvest enough, says the last rainbow illustration, to feed everyone...
...promising to do away with all nuclear weapons, but the President was nonetheless pictured as the advocate of military escalation while Gorbachev came across as the man of peace. Sophisticated analysts in the West realized that the issue was far more complicated than that, but Gorbachev nonetheless reaped a harvest of favorable reactions in many parts of the world...