Word: heartful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...signs have gone up in restaurants and bars. But too many mothers-to-be are not getting the message. More than 50,000 babies are born in the U.S. each year with alcohol-related defects. In about one-fourth of these cases, the damage -- ranging from facial deformities to heart abnormalities -- is severe enough to be classified as fetal alcohol syndrome...
...amphetamines, but these only increased his intimations of mortality. On another June morning, almost 21 years to the day after he caught the attention of the Bavarian professor, Hitler was taken on a triumphal tour of Paris. He paused at Napoleon's tomb, placed his cap over his heart, bowed and gazed at the crypt. Then the Fuhrer turned to a favorite and said somberly, "You will build my tomb." But construction had already begun on that mausoleum. At its completion five years later, it would also accommodate some 50 million others. It was called the Third Reich...
...barbed, cynical and funny. Their attitudes and remarks reveal gifts for malice, resentment and mordant sentimentality, which Dunne associates with his immigrant heritage. As he writes in Harp, a memoir that takes its title from the slang for a son or daughter of the Old Sod, "Nothing lifts the heart of the Irish caroler more than the small vice, the tiny lapse, the exposed vanity, the recherche taste...
...heart of Lebanon's misery is a 1943 "national pact" reaffirming that the predominance of power would be held by the majority Christian community. Since then, the Muslim population has overwhelmed the Christian count, but the political arrangements have not been altered to reflect the Muslims' strength. Until that imbalance is redressed, tribal hostilities will not cease...
Having won everything, Hitler still could not be satisfied. The following spring, deciding that he now wanted more than just the Sudetenland, he held a conference with Czech President Emil Hacha in Berlin (Bene had resigned and gone into exile after Munich). Hacha was 66 and suffering from heart trouble, so it did not help to have the meeting begin at 1:15 a.m. on March 15, 1939. Hitler told his guest that the Czechs were still guilty of "Bene tendencies," and therefore the Wehrmacht would invade Czechoslovakia at 6 that morning. The only question was whether the Czechs would...