Word: rend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effort to repeal the prevailing wage is simply another attempt to rend the fabric of this social contract; its proponents are not only anti-labor, but anti-community. Organized labor is a valuable and productive component of American society. The prevailing wage is as important to the labor movement as child labor laws, Right-to-Know laws, and the minimum wage...
...blood-red sun was just peeking over the eastern ridge of California's Mojave Desert when the space shuttle Discovery began to descend like a silver hawk in search of prey. As it shattered the sound barrier, a thundering crack! seemed to rend the sky in two, and a cheer swelled from the crowd below. Within minutes the ship had rolled to a halt along the right side of the runway at Edwards Air Force Base, kicking up massive clouds of dust. Not since the landing of the first shuttle had NASA officials been so openly emotional. Said Mission...
...deserter is executed; later, his wife and her mother, who have been looting corpses in order to survive, are also shot. Sickened by the carnage, the General turncoats and is imprisoned in an insane asylum. There the inhabitants obsessively recite litanies of violence as they tear their hair and rend their clothes. When the General once again refuses an order to take the field on behalf of king and country, his eyes are put out. Images of his victims appear before the blinded General; frightened, the asylum's inmates kill him, while ghosts of the liberated dead sing...
Even if glimpsed only for a moment above a surging crowd as an instant, solitary figure in white, the Pope wanted to let the faithful know by his presence that he was moved by the grinding poverty and political oppression of the region. He had heard "the heart-rending lament rising from these lands," where over the past five years, civil strife has claimed the lives of more than 100,000 people, most of them bystanders in the struggle between left and right. Indeed, the region's conflicts have reaped a grim harvest of martyrs and threatened to rend...
...burden of excessive military build-up on developing economies that can sorely afford it. The hope lies with the voices from within, both Jewish and Arab, calling for compromise and an end to violence. These moderate voices are few and separated from one another, yet they represent a rend in both camps which could foreseeably one day affect the peace process...