Word: perishables
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Heil Hitler! Deutschland erwache! Juda verrecke!" they bellowed as he emerged waving his black felt hat. "Hail Hitler! Germany awake! Perish Juda...
...people, to nail them to his purpose. But in the next 25 years the spike was driven through the living flesh of people until they bled, or hungered, or died at random, until life became chaos. The spike had to be torn out or half China's people would perish. What is going on in China now is a great debate over whether to rip Mao Tse-tung entirely out of history, or whether to let what is left embedded of "Mao Thought" heal over...
...tribulations in this academic community go far beyond publish or perish. There is the oh-so-smooth college president who is scheming to become a political bigwig. There is the cuckolded football coach whose wanton wife is exchanging signals with the star quarterback. There is the ogreish dean who keeps his pristine daughter locked away in his gothic manse. Meanwhile, no one seems to be paying much attention to books, lectures, homework or grades. That is because Alden University exists only in a mythical grove called Soapland and in the mind of a woman who creates worlds that flicker...
...control their economies so that they can pay back part of their huge debts. But the Brazilians are increasingly unwilling to accept those conditions. Says João Camilo Pena, Minister of Industry and Commerce: "If the IMF gives the same medicine to all debtor nations, they will all perish from the cure." As last week's strikes and protests dramatically demonstrate, solutions to the debt dilemma that require stern sacrifices could be a formula for political chaos...
...formula these days is words 100 words from the reporter, and a "sound bite" of 15 or 20 words from the speaker. At long last Lincoln's turn comes; he is heard pledging that "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." This is Horace Everyman, ABC-CBS-NBC News in Gettysburg...