Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...children, having risen in the dark to down a hurried breakfast, had jammed into the mosque for the dawn prayers that mark the start of the sunrise-to-sunset fast on each of the 30 days of Ramadan. Prayers had just begun; the worshippers were kneeling forward on plastic mats, touching foreheads reverently to the floor...
...sleuthing revealed that Adams House offers the most diversity to the discerning palate. Entire shelves of cereal boxes (the Adams hauteur demands the classic elegance of the cardboard box, instead of the plastic turn-and-grind dispensers present in almost all other houses) form a spectrum of brandnames as varied as the house's inhabitants...
...Conservative Party annual conference. But some of his fellow Tories weren't listening to Major's pitch for family values. Only last week, Conservative M.P. Stephen Milligan was found dead in his apartment. He was wearing women's stockings and a garter belt and had a plastic bag over his head and an orange in his mouth. (Scotland Yard believes Milligan's death may have been due to self-strangulation while indulging in a solitary sexual practice.) Some other recent Tory peccadilloes...
...have it, just like the massacre at the market. That's how it's been for 660 days of this war. And nobody gave a damn. In these 23 months, more than 200,000 people have been killed, and still nothing. Maybe all those bodies really were just plastic dummies, like Karadzic says...
...called historical decision from Brussels, those who talked about plastic dummies cynically placed at the market in Sarajevo are not even touched. Maybe they have divined the real truth: we in Sarajevo are truly nothing more than plastic dummies with whom anyone can play...