Word: potted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That evening, hundreds of anxious parents gathered in the school's airless auditorium. They chanted, "Two, four, six, eight, no AIDS in any grades!" and waved placards proclaiming OUR CHILDREN WANT GOOD GRADES, NOT AIDS! Local politicians stirred the pot. "This is not meant to scare you," City Councilman Joseph Lisa of Queens began, "but leading medical researchers throughout the world truly believe that this epidemic may well be the most serious epidemic in recorded medical history." Chimed in State Assemblyman Frederick Schmidt: "There is no medical authority who can say with authority that AIDS cannot be transmitted in school...
...protectionist pot is about to boil over," Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole proclaimed two weeks ago in Japan, where he headed a Senate trade delegation. He added, "I have never seen stronger congressional sentiment for acting on the trade front." Says S. Bruce Smart, Under Secretary of Commerce: "Industries have collectively created a fire storm of concern on Capitol Hill." Calls for tough action on imports are widespread. Senate Republican Charles Grassley of Iowa declared last week that "the Administration's approach has gotten us nowhere." Republican John Danforth of Missouri called the President's decision a "very serious mistake...
...lobsters clicking and clacking each other with their tails. The rabbi just sort of stared and sniffed the air; he must have wondered what that tref scent was, lingering in the kid's bedroom. The minute the rabbi left, my mom and I gleefully threw the lobsters into a pot of boiling water and then ate them...
Although Hispanics constitute by far the largest audience for ethnic programming, a growing number of stations are offering polyglot schedules that amount to a microcosm of the U.S. melting pot. KSCI-TV in Los Angeles begins its day at 4 a.m. with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, followed by half an hour of Korean news, an Islamic educational program, a Farsi version of the Today show and, around lunchtime, a costume drama called Chinese World. WCIU-TV, Channel 26 in Chicago, carries some 60 hours a week of foreign-language programming, ranging from Club del Nino, a Hispanic children's series...
...other country has ever confronted. On the other hand, Americans are probably more tolerant of diversity than they once were. "America is much more of a pluralistic society now," says Peter Rose, professor of sociology at Smith College. "You don't hear so much talk about the melting pot today. The old ideology, the concerted effort to make people the same, has been overtaken by reality...