Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least notion of modern engineering," as Rossum's general manager puts it, the robots have been built without such impractical attributes as feeling or a soul. First they do all the world's work, then they wage all the world's wars, then they rebel and destroy their makers. "You are not as strong as the robots, you are not as skillful as the robots," says the leader of the rebellion. "I want to be master...
...once a strong and reliable phalanx of Democratic power, have joined the middle class; in straitened times, an era of limits, they see Big Government not as a source of protection, as before, but as a vast bureaucracy, the big spenders installed by Democrats, extorting their tax dollars. They rebel against welfare. If the economic pie will not expand, then a certain amount of the emotional generosity goes out of the old Democratic program. Inflation has been hard on the humane instincts of Democratic liberalism...
South House Q.B. Joe Auteri couldn't quite match those stats, mostly because of a surprising Quincy pass rush and airtight secondary. The vaunted Rebel offensive line couldn't contain the charge of Quincy's Paul Rozak, John Keane, John Garvey, and Lance Miller, particularly in the second half, and the usually potent SoHo passing attack only managed 30 yards on five completions...
Wang, born in 1949 of a military family, is the same age as the People's Republic. As a teen-age Red Guard in the Cultural Revolution, he belonged to a rebel faction in his home town of Tianjin. There he once helped loot and burn a Roman Catholic church. Chastened by those outbursts, he has become a sculptor whose brooding images, carved from blocks of wood bought at a local firewood shop, show the evils of political fanaticism. "When I was a Red Guard," Wang says, pointing to his work, "I would have smashed all of this...
...amount of bear hugging, however, could hide frustrations over the inability of the Soviets' 85,000 occupation troops to vanquish the rebel insurgents' continued resistance in Afghanistan. In a propagandistic way, Karmal admitted as much when he complained to his Soviet hosts that bandits and terrorists armed by the U.S. and China "intimidate and loot the population and kill party members and employees of state organizations...