Word: hives
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even before Berlusconi could savor his triumph, however, rifts opened in his fragile odd-bedfellows alliance. The federalists of the Northern League, weary of watching their tax money leave the region, yearn to hive off Italy's rich north from its impoverished south. But on the opposite flank, followers of the National Alliance prefer a unified Italian state and support the centralist policies of Benito Mussolini. Early Tuesday in Rome's Piazza del Popolo, a traditional rallying point, hundreds of admirers threw stiff-armed salutes and shouted, "Duce!" -- the chant that greeted Mussolini seven decades ago. Three days later, Fini...
...nations in Montana long ago -- a Pandaemonium of the patriarchy, a sweat lodge of the Granphalloon, Le Tout Guyim: as if the entire male audience of the Super Bowl had been vacuumed through 100 million television tubes (thuuuuppp!) and reassembled in one vast bass- and baritone- and tenor-buzzing hive...
Beautiful and talented southern belle. Rebuffed at the Miss Mississippi beauty pageant this summer, East returns to the hive as Queen of the Bee Club...
...builders of the legendary Tower of Babel had hired a work crew from Utah, the massive structure might actually have been completed instead of collapsing in the confusion of the workers' diverse languages. The linguistically savvy Utahans could have worked like bees in a hive. Or at least that is the boast among modern-day locals, who are using their language skills to build the economy of their home state...
Denying men access to The Bee hive (or whatever they are going to call it), just because they are men, is sexist by definition. And it legitimizes the final clubs themselves, which for decades have denied women access to a network of job connections and subjugated women to second-class status...