Word: potted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Well, right now they are in the Middle East in one place, and that is where there is trouble. That has been a tactic of theirs: they do not necessarily start the trouble, but they get in and stir the pot. They could be helpful if they would use their influence to persuade Syria to withdraw from Lebanon and let the Lebanese regain control of their country...
...mutual isolation. Some members of the United Church of Christ, for example, invited the Soviets to send a group of visitors on a tour of New England. Last April came a newspaper editor, a Russian Orthodox bishop, a scientist and six others, who stayed in rural homes and ate pot-luck dinners. "It was the first time many of these people had ever done anything like this," says Elizabeth Gardner, who helped organize the tour and whose husband Clint was finishing an exchange visit to the Soviet Union in December. "It proved to a lot of people that the Soviets...
...white America, a black man's otherness is stamped indelibly on his face. Whether he runs the 100-meter dash or runs for President, whether he orates like Martin Luther King Jr. or drawls like Stepin Fetchit, his color sets him apart. For him the American melting pot can sear faster than it assimilates. And so he looks to his roots, finding solace in soul, while fixing an eye on the main chance of upward mobility. His tragedy is that, in both worlds, he may end up a stranger...
This snowballing imprecision has been in progress for almost a decade. Author Anthony Burgess recalls teaching in the U.S. at various times in the 1970s. "American college students have said, 'Like 1984, man,' when asked not to smoke pot in the classroom or advised gently to do a little reading." Now merely mentioning the date can convey muzzy criticism of whatever the speaker happens to dislike: advertising, computers, beeper phones, freeways and domed stadiums...
...decal of a flowerpot to make a gutted tenement look cheerily affluent, it could just as well buy a decal of a large filet mignon, surrounded by heaps of buttered carrots and peas and mashed potatoes. If that seems too indulgent, perhaps simply a decal of a steaming pot of stew. That should enable quite a few families to imagine themselves well...