Word: reminded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...miles off the coast Thus Massachusetts seamen no longer have to compete with better-equipped foreign trawlers for the dwindling supply of flounder, cod and haddock. Appropriately, Studds boarded the buoy tender Bittersweet for the annual blessing of the fishing fleet off New Bedford-and also to remind his audience that he had cleared the waters for them...
...nights, Amy sometimes retreats to her tree house, a platform five feet up among the leaves and boasting a hammock. Just to remind everyone that politics can never be totally absent, the President also saw to it that an invitation to the tree house was extended to the daughter of a Republican Congressman who had supported his opposition to natural-gas deregulation...
...Hearn's department store in Brooklyn, youths stripped clothing from window mannequins, broke their limbs and scattered them on the floor. Said Miguel Ten, a Viet Nam veteran who stood guarding Arnet's Children's Wear store: "This reminds me of Pleiku in 1966. There was a war out here. And the mannequins remind me of the dead people I saw in Nam without legs and arms...
...Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn sees it, Hatfield's argument requires the West to practice "self-deterrence." Said Nunn: "I remind my colleagues that the purpose of deterrence is to deter Soviet aggression, not to deter ourselves from responding to that aggression...
Despite this high adventure, the movie does not involve us. Sorcerer is supposed to remind us of exciting, old-time adventure movies, but in the old days the hero had a reason for undergoing his labors. In Sorcerer, the truck drivers are serving no revolution, protecting no freedom-loving resistance movement, fighting for no love, saving no lives (not that one life more or less would mean anything in the perverse world of this film). They are struggling instead for a large bonus on their paychecks; on their success depends only the job of the oil company's local manager...