Word: ironizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...manifestly subordinate to U.S. imperialism's class interests. Students who have other illusions should recall the words spoken a century ago by the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck: "The great questions of our time will not be settled by resolutions and majority votes...but by blood and iron." Reagan's invasion of Grenada only underscores the fundamental truth of that statement...
...disillusion you, but having the Hobey Baker Award winner and his high scoring brother on the ice in Bright Hockey Center didn't exactly put Harvard on the big time sports map. the sad fact is, it's tough to find people outside of New England, Minesota's Iron Range or Madison, Wisconsin who go crazy over two top-notch college hockey players...
...Martin who has carried the ball on most of the science-related questions that have affected the Faculty at large in recent years--from helping iron out its policy on the thorny issues of technology transfer to developing strategies for dealing with the computer...
...barbed wire (3) and sped between two guard posts (4). Two sentries were on duty, and under the Marines' standing orders for duty within the compound, their M-16 rifles were unloaded. As they struggled to insert their weapons' magazines, the vehicle crashed through a wrought-iron gate (5) and into the Marine compound. Either bouncing over or thrusting aside a single 18-in. sewer pipe (6) that was supposed to protect the entrance, the truck crashed through or went around a flimsy guardhouse in the doorway (7), perhaps running down the two Marines on duty, and into...
...serious quasi-constitutional function as a representative of the public. Obviously the White House or the Pentagon remembered the Viet Nam "livingroom war" and the revulsion it created. Obviously they admired and envied Margaret Thatcher's dealing with the press during the Falklands invasion, when the Iron Lady's government allowed only a small contingent of journalists along, under wraps...