Word: hawker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jade Tiger maneuvers will probably have the U.S. Air Force landing large transports at Thamarit, which has one of the longest runways in the world, and U.S. Navy fighters from aircraft carriers in the Indian Ocean may practice missions in support of the Omani air force's Hawker Hunter and Jaguar fighter-bombers based at Thamarit. But this time with zero news coverage...
Which is excuse enough--if an excuse is needed--for the new, slogan-filled way that Nicaraguans have of talking. It is their badge of victory. And if the 11-year-old literacy teacher sometimes sounds a little like a hawker of socialist newspapers in the Square, listen on, for he has much more to day. In the midst of one reading lesson, the topic, of course, the revolution, he looks up and says, "It is really evil for people to bomb their own countries...
...After all, the Cambridge Phoenix, as it was first known, was the original "underground" paper in this city, a playful, political, very-angry-or-very-happy rag put out by people who thought rag was a fine description. If you were stopped at a red light, chances were a hawker would have been at your window peddling the paper for a quarter. Even after early 70s financial dealings too Byzantine to discuss created a new paper--The Real Paper--with most of the original staff, the weekly retained much of its spirit...