Word: potted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result of Western-style training: officers are educated in academics modeled on British institutions. In part it is caused by the military's heterogeneous nature; the armed forces perform the same role for India as they do for nations like Israel and the United States, providing a "melting pot" of different regions, religions, socioeconomic strata, even languages. No group or social class has been systematically excluded from military service in India. Such a cohesive, non-exclusive force in Indian society is not likely to engage in sectarian squabbles or to generate potential tyrants, and such has indeed been the case...
...July 1966, Stephen Young was walking through the village of Ban Chiang in northeastern Thailand when he tripped across history. "I stumbled over the root of a kapok tree and ended up spread-eagle in the dirt, and under my face was the rim of a pot," recalls Young, who was then a 20-year-old Harvard student spending the summer researching a political-science thesis...
...pot boils over nonstop in this superheated political romance; Andrzej Wajda sees to that. From his first features (the 1950s trilogy comprising A Generation, Kanaland Ashes and Diamonds) to the 1981 Man of Iron, an incendiary docudrama about the Solidarity movement, this Polish director has always made movies as if he believed that craft was an impediment to emotion and subtlety the last refuge of an artistic quisling. His hurtling, bullying camera captures characters in heat or dancing on the barricades taunting their Soviet godfathers. But it takes a strong subject not to be overwhelmed by Wajda's scenery...
...novel. In fact it is something far more momentous, the first stage in the construction-the scaffolding and a few truckloads of apparitions, so to speak-of a Steven Spielberg movie. So the publicity blurbs boast. The director of Jaws and E.T. has bought the movie rights for a pot of money. Surely, by the way, this explains the dual authorship. The story's weight and complexity are not such that it is necessary to have one author shoveling coal while the other steers. But the combined constituencies of King (Pet Sematary) and Straub (Ghost Story...
...applicant chosen for the position had no special courses and worked for two years as a pot washer, which Local 26 Business Agent Barbara Rice said did not give him more expensive in cooking. Rice said that pot Wahers are occasionally asked to help cook, but added that she feels checkers who could help just as well are not given the opportunity...