Word: ironizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Almost nothing has succeeded in Duluth over the past three or four years. A once great port, which sent the resources of the Iron Range to the rest of the world via the massive are boats that ply Lake Superior, has faded...
...pagans are licentious and foul-mouthed. They despise the black robes but fear the white man's power. They also covet the iron kettles, muskets and other trade goods the Europeans can provide in exchange for escort services. For the man of God, the journey is a trial of faith and a temptation in the wilderness. Each bend in the river holds new dangers to body and spirit: hunger, pestilence, raiding Iroquois and challenges hurled at Christianity by an Indian shaman...
...weren't outclassed by Princeton," said Nadkarni. "They're efficient, but they're not overwhelming. Until we get steady, we're going to have problems. But if we can iron cut those inconsistencies I think we'll beat Princeton at the Ivies...
...French, German and Polish officers who fought with the American colonies during the Revolutionary War. Secretary of State George Shultz joined the offensive at a congressional hearing last week. He declared that the U.S. had a "moral duty" to rescue the people of Nicaragua, who had fallen "behind the Iron Curtain." That statement seemed a bit hyperbolic. It is not established that the Sandinistas take their orders from the Kremlin the way the East bloc countries do. But it is clear that they are mightily beholden to the Soviets for a steady stream of aid and arms, and highly attentive...
...almost a paradigm of black communities in South Africa, and its history a parable of the agonies and anomalies of apartheid. For ten years, blacks have streamed into the area and patched together flimsy huts out of odds and ends--bits of wood and plastic, old garbage bags, corrugated iron and cardboard. Most of the settlement's residents were "illegals" from the impoverished government-created tribal homelands of Transkei and Ciskei, which offer no employment, no money and no food. Almost as fast as the blacks kept pouring in, the authorities kept pushing them back, smashing their shacks and returning...