Word: originated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...American melting pot, gangsters were the indigestible pieces of ethnic gristle; country of origin was as crucial as turf. So we need some Irish gangsters. In Phil Joanou's State of Grace, they are based on the Westies gang, who ran the rackets in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen. Other Irishmen run a big-city crime factory, about 1929, in Joel and Ethan Coen's Miller's Crossing, where, in the grand tradition, they fight the Italians and the Jews...
...origin of Kipling's ode is only one of many quaint facts in this rambling, opinionated history of the "special relationship" between Britain and the U.S. An English journalist of hip leftist views, Hitchens was inspired by the question he asked himself one night outside a Los Angeles hotel, where Prince Philip was to bestow the Winston Churchill Award upon Ronald Reagan. Why is it, Hitchens wondered, that Englishness looms so large in the American imagination, particularly among the rich...
That Fossey impulsively embraced a heart of darkness is obvious. Yet the wild shadows in Hayes' biography are illuminated by what he calls a "miracle of will." Its origin is Fossey's desperation to escape her own loneliness. It made her fearless; it triggered her outrage and outbursts and was the source of her fierce attachments...
...real origin of the suspicions about Germany's future is, of course, its dark past, namely the crimes committed during the twelve-year reign of Adolf Hitler. Hitler, after all, did not commit those crimes by himself; other Germans piloted the bombers over Warsaw, and other Germans operated the gas chambers at Auschwitz. Though the majority of today's Germans were not even born when those crimes were committed, the nation remains tainted by the Nazi legacy that endures in the world's memory...
...more people here. Imagine what that would have done. These are good people: craftsmen, programmers, doctors, chemists. They are all needed over there. You cannot rebuild the East German economy without them. Apart from that, over the same period we accommodated 175,000 resettlers of German origin from Poland, Romania and other East European countries...