Word: octopus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scene tickles the imagination and captivates the eye. The Wacky WallWalker, as it is called, is a sticky, rubber, eight-legged object that exists to be thrown at a wall or window, on which it alights, shudders, flips, turns, wriggles and lurches downward, shimmying like a pixilated octopus...
...restore order in Matabeleland, the Mugabe government last August launched Operation Octopus, an offensive by seven army battalions that netted 450 suspects. But in their zeal to root out dissidents, the soldiers roughed up many of the Ndebeles, increasing the tribe's hostility toward the Mugabe government. Last summer saboteurs wrecked 13 planes, about 25% of Zimbabwe's air force, while ZIPRA rebels abducted six tourists (two Americans, two British and two Australians) returning from a trip to Victoria Falls. Nkomo disavowed the crimes and traveled through Matabeleland urging the locals to aid in the hunt...
When Walton was at his best, he played it only all-out: a willowy orange-haired octopus with a delicate spiny-fingered touch and flowing style. "Basketball is the most beautiful game and the most fun," he says, "because everyone has to do everything. Players say they're happy with a win, but no one is really happy if it hasn't been a good style of a game. One guy can really have it going but be out of sync with the team and ruin...
...novel The Octopus by Frank Norris, which romanticizes the grain farmer, the villain is buried alive under a mountain of wheat. Across the Midwest, many farmers are increasingly fearful that they are about to be buried financially in a similar fashion. Last week the U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed its estimates of record U.S. and world grain production in 1982. In Minnesota and the Dakotas, farmers are stuffing unsold wheat into their sheds, leaving tractors and combines out in the cold. An abandoned coal mine near Quincy, Ill., and an ammunition depot in Hastings, Neb., were recently readied...
Trying to check the lawlessness, the government has launched a cleanup operation, code-named Octopus, in the Bulawayo region, including a nighttime curfew on the western suburbs. Mark Dube, Deputy Minister of lands resettlement and rural development, told Parliament that dissidents responsible for gangsterism should be brought to the capital, Harare, and publicly executed by firing squad in the stadium...