Word: plunders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...publication that accompanies this show indicates, by the time the '60s rolled round, cars were no longer seen as shuttles to paradise. They had become villains responsible for turning America into a dystopia. Autos were described as gas guzzlers, road eaters, monsters that plunder the countryside. They had brought about a nation scarred with billboards, motels and drive-in restaurants, banks and even churches. When Joni Mitchell sang, "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot," millions of listeners joined in the chorus...
...Without either confirming or denying that they provoked the latest fighting, Peking accused the Vietnamese of firing 10,000 rounds at "densely populated Chinese villages and towns in Yunnan and Guangxi." The Chinese claim Vietnamese infantry units have crossed the border in 90 places to lay land mines and plunder local settlements. Viet Nam recently showed off two Chinese prisoners to foreign journalists in Hanoi, while China's state-run television ran film clips of Chinese infantrymen near the border and of hospitalized Chinese casualties...
...victory in the nationwide elections moved many of Nkomo's supporters to become rebellious. Nkomo himself was sacked from the Cabinet two years ago, after he was accused of plotting to overthrow the government. The territory is also plagued by armed bandits who kill as well as plunder. Over the past two years, dozens of white farmers have been murdered. At least 75 people were murdered by anti-government terrorists in the last half of 1983. In March, saboteurs blew up the country's main power station at Hwange, causing nationwide electricity shortages...
...terms of plot, the show is merely the stuff of any normal television soap opera: rape, plunder, anguish, despair. But the yearlong Japanese TV series Sanga Moyu is causing a real-life melodrama of its own. Based on a popular novel, Two Homelands by Toyoko Yamasaki, it is the story of the Japanese-American Amoh family, immigrants to the U.S. whose national loyalties are tested by World War II. The homeland they choose does not choose them, and the Amohs live through racist humiliation, imprisonment in a California relocation center and other indignities. The show has been so popular...
Supposedly, Watt's job is to protect the environment. His track record as Interior Secretary, however, would lead one to believe otherwise. He subscribes to the "multiple use" concept of land management plunder rather than preserve...