Word: potted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mess but himself. I keep telling him to negotiate now, while he's still comparatively strong, and give freedom back to the Philippines while he can still dictate terms. I tell him not to wait until it's too late. But that's the tragedy of dictators--Somoza, Pol Pot, the Shah--they all wait until it's too late...
Putting aside my desire to mumble something about the pot calling the ketle black-TIME having scrambled more syntax than Professor Backwards-I appreciate the cry for better editing of books...
...Vice Premier nonetheless defended China's support for the genocidal regime of Pol Pot in Cambodia and disparaged accounts that 1 million people had died under Pol Pot's rule. By its occupation of Laos and Cambodia, Viet Nam, he said, had become "the Cuba of the East." China's own attack against Viet Nam last year was not very successful, he noted, because many countries disapproved of it. But "we reserve our right to give them another lesson...
Detroit's auto leaders represent an American melting pot. General Motors Chairman Thomas Aquinas Murphy is of Irish descent; Ford Chairman Philip Caldwell has an English background; Chrysler Chairman Lee A. Iacocca's parents were Italian immigrants; and United Auto Workers President Douglas Fraser was born in Scotland. Just as various as their backgrounds are their strongly argued views about the current state of their industry and its future...
...famous immigrant gateway to the New World, now has 80,000 children in bilingual classes. About 60,000 are Spanish. Among the nine other languages: Arabic, Chinese, Greek, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Korean and Russian. Naturally, in the shadow of Ellis Island, there are many nostalgic references to the melting pot and the role of the American high school in giving incoming foreigners their first shared experience of the American way of life. Proponents argue that what was best for grandfather is not good enough for immigrant children today. For one thing, grandfather often never really learned English in the melting...