Word: pillar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hoping for reform from within." The American Communist Party believed its moment had come. "If I vote at all," social critic Lewis Mumford said, "it will be for the Communists." "The destruction of the Democratic Party," argued University of Chicago professor Paul Douglas (who would later become a pillar of the same party), "would be one of the best things that could happen in our political life." "The situation is critical," political analyst Walter Lippman warned Roosevelt two months before he took office. "You may have no alternative but to assume dictatorial power...
...Ryan has become a pillar of Boston electronic music and club culture. He's a long-spinning resident at Axis, one of the most popular clubs in Boston, and his Friday night set, Spin Cycle, is broadcast weekly live on WFNX and on-line. Word of his prowess with vinyl has also extended well beyond Boston, and his track "Supa Crush" features on the recently released CD "Torchbearers: A Compilation of 11 Club Culture Vanguards...
FROM OFFICE PILLAR TO POST...
...sunny holiday, as a visitor inspects carvings of demons and gods and mythological battles at the haunted temple of Angkor Wat, suddenly a Cambodian standing nearby clutches a pillar till his knuckles turn white. "Look," he says, swallowing. "There's Khieu Samphan!" He points to a trim elderly man in white shirt and slacks, walking with relatively little protection toward his helicopter. "He killed so many," says the visitor. "He killed my mother, my father," says the man, who was himself forced out of his home as a boy to work in the fields. Samphan and Nuon Chea, allowed...
...replacing the bewildering tangle of product lines (raise your hand if you know the difference between the PowerBook 3400c/180 and the PowerBook 1400cs/166) with just four: the G3 desktop and laptop machines for the Mac-friendly publishing and graphics communities; the iMac desktop consumer machine; and the last pillar of Jobs' four-prong strategy, the consumer laptop iBook...