Word: pickax
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With breathtaking speed, the hideous partition that split Berlin falls to the pickax of reforms inspired by Mikhail Gorbachev. As the city exults and the world ponders the consequences, one thing is certain: nothing will ever be quite the same again. -- Is one Germany better than two? -- An obituary for the Wall of Shame, where some 75 people yearning for freedom have perished...
...Tigers and Royals have sampled defeat, and the Padres have done more than that, only the Cubs have stood for disillusionment, and their first success in 39 years has wrought a national catharsis. For Cub fans actually from Chicago, where this way of strife is passed down like a pickax from father to son, it must be gently annoying to find so many noble sufferers going public, besides George Will and the other political columnists breaking out in their regular rash...
...spanking-clean hard hat, electric-blue jumpsuit and unblemished tennis sneakers, he looked more like a catalogue ad for blue-collar chic than a bona fide construction worker. But it turned out that Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, 51, swings a mean pickax. Reproved at a political meeting for junketing about the globe instead of minding the store at home, Young replied: "It would be nice to stay here and fill the potholes. If you find a pothole, see me. I'll fill it up myself." Naturally, the next day, Hizzoner's office received 60 calls. In four scheduled...
...Trotsky was killed with a pickax, you know. I imagine some day John Carpenter will make a movie of it." Emily Mann, the play's director, is alive to both the passion and the ambiguities in each man's argument and, by staging the piece at a ferocious pace, demonstrates that the drama of ideas can be the most exalted of blood sports...
...performance was vintage Ronald Reagan: a laughing anecdote about how he had almost dropped a pickax on the feet of his boss on a youthful summer construction job; a wry translation of status quo as "Latin for 'the mess we're in' "; a visionary proclamation of "an American Renaissance" of high employment and low inflation. But the audience was as cool as any Reagan has played to as President. It gave him about the minimum of tepid applause required by politeness and respect to his office...