Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will be down in real terms for the first time in years. Most forecasts agree that the biggest spenders in 1975 will be coal, copper and other mining companies, which plan to increase their capital outlays by a dramatic 40%, to $4 billion, the petroleum industry (up 35%) and iron and steel firms...
...city. "Three knocked-out Israeli tanks are gathering rust at the entrance to the city, with little children playing soldiers on them. In a building still blackened from being burned out, a baker pulls trays of flat bread out of the makeshift oven, while a shop opened beneath twisted iron shutters offers transistors and domestic appliances. Above the din of the crowd, there is the hum of bulldozers and the clatter of sledgehammers as workers battle to clear the debris of hopelessly damaged buildings...
...Guido, who also happens to be his good friend, into serving as his second. Guido issues an unconditional challenge, only too slyly aware that the marquis is both a crack pistol shot and a master swordsman. But Leone makes the final move on the chessboard of fate. By the iron rules of the game, the second must fight if the principal, for whatever reason, refuses. Leone refuses. And Guido...
Within minutes of the attack, hordes of irate "Southie" residents surged in front of the high school's imposing iron gates. "Bus them back to Africa!" they screamed. "Why are we here?" shrieked one man. "To get those niggers!" When Boston police, bolstered by 125 state troopers, charged the mob, the crowd retaliated by hurling bricks and bottles. They slashed the tires on police cruisers and even tipped one over. While four school buses roared up to the front door to divert the attention of the crowd, the school's black students were herded onto buses...
...shadowy cave world of the witch-queen Azura, one of the most sinuous vamps of all time. Wielding sword and ray gun (not to mention skull and bones), Flash survives everything that Mongo's Ming the Merciless can throw at him: sacred droks, octosaks, shark men, iron men, hawk men, even Ming's insatiable daughter, Princess Aura. Forty years on, Dale still sounds like an escapee from a Campbell's Soup ad. Flash still does not get around to marrying her. Author-Illustrator Alex Raymond still seems to be some sort of genius...