Word: isn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...writers said, 'There are three kinds of lie: a small lie, a big lie and politics.' He was right, so I don't involve myself in politics. Of course, we presumed Chernenko was ill, but who knew how ill? They don't give health bulletins here, you know. This isn't America; we feed on news from the grapevine. So it was a surprise to hear he had actually died. Still, things haven't changed much since the Stalin days. Ever since, we have had a more or less collectivized government leadership, and things seem to jog along comfortably enough...
...that will never happen. Lenin set the country in motion, and other drivers have stepped in to take his place, but they are all going down the same road and cannot change that. What does it concern the man in the street who is the latest General Secretary? It isn't we who choose them. So why get interested? When I was 20, I was involved in politics. Now I can take it or leave it. And, in the end, it is better to leave...
...There isn't anything-but admission to a Bulldog hockey game--left to fight over...
...Italian Restaurant in Cambridge, neatness and tastefulness are the important criteria. "An applicant for a position in the dining room must be very neatly groomed--his clothes, his shoes, his hands, his hair," says owner Dom A Capossela. What kind of clothing an applicant wears isn't so important, out "it must be tasteful and stylish...
...contrasts, for progressive thinking and dug-in resistance, for surprises. The minister of the First United Church-of-Christ is a woman, the Rev. Donna Van Voorhis. Women in Sauk Centre have come a long way since Carol Kennicott, the heroine of Main Street, left home because "solitary dishwashing isn't enough to satisfy me $ --or many other women." Minnesota has a long liberal political tradition, but the state also teems with right-wing extremists like the vigilante group called posse comitatus. The whist players at John's Place solemnly declared Sauk Centre "the best town in the state...