Word: mustard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...teachers, camp counselors, "experts" of various kinds; they are the men and women who, it is hoped, will year by year work on a child, make him or her stronger, sounder, more ambitious, more effective, more competent-better able to get ahead and, very important, able to "cut the mustard," meaning deal with the difficulties and obstacles that present themselves to people in a highly advanced and still quite competitive society. In the background lurks fear: Will my child lose, will he or she slip back, will the result be failure, real or imaginary? No admission to schools like...
...June 30, 1936. His country had been overrun by the Blackshirt battalions of Benito Mussolini, whose son-in-law, Count Ciano, ecstatically described the beauty of "bombs opening like red blossoms" upon the Ethiopian highlands. Hundreds of thousands of his barefoot soldiers had been killed by Fascist bombs and mustard gas. A small, bearded, hawk-faced figure with blazing black eyes, he stood at the lectern and declared: "I am here today to claim the justice that is due to my people ... God and history will remember your judgment." Then, as he stepped down, he murmured the words that were...
...Little Stevie Wonder, he has sold more than 30 million albums. Asked about how the current contract compares with Wonder's early paydays, Motown Records President Ewart Abner just laughed. "We're not even talking about apples and oranges," he said. "It's more like comparing mustard seeds and watermelons...
Rumors were rife that the gang's supporters would go to extreme lengths to disrupt the trial. A Stockholm newspaper received a letter threatening "unusual actions," including an attack upon Stuttgart with rockets, flamethrowers and mustard gas, if amnesty was not granted. Since two quarts of the deadly gas had mysteriously disappeared from a North German army post a few days earlier, the government sent urgent instructions to all West German hospitals and private doctors on how to treat mustard-gas burns. Authorities were also alarmed when one of the defense lawyers representing the terrorists disappeared shortly before...
...next stop is one of three military bases in the U.S., where they wait for sponsorship in America. At one of those bases, Southern California's sprawling Camp Pendleton, Marines have thrown up a vast tent city amid the tough green scrub and yellow-mustard weeds. The Marines, who displayed superb organization in setting up the camp, rounded up three blankets for every refugee and issued each a hooded field jacket. The refugees organized a committee responsible for small personal needs, medical services and English-language courses. There was something hauntingly familiar about a Marine captain's remark...