Word: potted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sheriff fires his six-shooter right at the audience. True love conquers all prejudices in a land with a built-in happy ending. In the universal language of images, the movies told over and over the All-American story of assimilation and triumph -- the alchemy of the melting pot...
James saw the very crest of the great immigrant wave. At the turn of the century, four out of every ten New Yorkers were foreign born. That fraction declined steadily -- until the past decade. Now, once again, New York City is America's melting pot. Today, local planning officials estimate, 2.1 million of the city's 7.1 million residents are from overseas, some 30%, a larger proportion than at any time since the 1940s. There are more Dominicans (an estimated 350,000) than in any city but Santo Domingo, more Haitians (225,000) than anywhere but Port au Prince, more...
Maybe it is hyperbole to call Mengele the most hated man in the world. There are certainly other candidates for that lamentable title. Pol Pot, for example, who directed the terrible massacres in Kampuchea in the 1970s. Or the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, who has led Iran back into the darkness. Or the director of the Soviet KGB, who has to be a leading candidate, ex officio, no matter who he is. But none of these political killers seems so utterly diabolical as Josef Mengele. The Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, where about 3 million Jews and other victims were...
...been waitressing 40 years, 20 of them in this truck stop. As she talks she polishes the stainless steel, fills mustard jars, adds the menu inserts for today's special (hot turkey sandwich, mashed potatoes and gravy, pot of coffee...
...alcohol. Tapering off for health reasons may be an enduring trend for an aging and sedentary population. "We're becoming a nation of clerks," says Megatrends Author John Naisbitt. "Over 70% of us process information; if we don't take care of our bodies, we'll go to pot...