Word: rest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Morton Downey's popularity derives in large part from the fact that he is not bound to any of the conventions the rest of are forced to obey, lest we be criticized of being racist or sexist. He is the mouth unchallenged, free to speak as he pleases. He gives inspiration to the timid...
...more earnestly the belief is held, the less influence it holds. It is met with condescending amusement, the derision of the critic who is certain that one's (not necessarily his) mind is independent. To be above such petty demands is to be a rebel. The rest are merely the herd...
...wreckage burned for more than an hour after the crash. The plane came to rest tilted at about a 45-degree angle, a charred wing tipped toward...
...dollars but kept coming back for more, day after day for two years. Tom Hicks, a trader on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, remembers one in particular named Peter Vogel: "He was real clean-cut -- wing tips, clipped hair, tie always knotted tightly. He didn't dress like the rest of us. They called him 'the accountant...
Ironically, blame might rest with the success of Gorbachev's glasnost campaign. The call for openness has given rise to a crescendo of grumbling that has become grist for news reports calling attention to the shortage of consumer goods. Public debate has also offered hints of divisiveness at the top. Last week Pravda published a letter, penned by six influential conservative writers, that attacked the weekly magazine Ogonyok, a leading light of glasnost, for abusing the new openness by distorting history. The letter could not have appeared in the Communist Party daily without support from some top-ranking party members...