Word: revolutionization
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Still, as far back as the late 1890s, Swedish Chemist Svante Arrhenius had begun to fret that the massive burning of coal during the Industrial Revolution, which pumped unprecedented amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere, might be too much of a good thing. Arrhenius made the startling prediction that a...
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast--A group led by President Thomas Sankara's chief adviser declared him a "a traitor to the revolution" yesterday and seized the government, the West African nation's official radio announced.
The "Popular Front of the 15th of October" seized the government to "halt the restoration of neo-colonialism being undertaken by the traitor to the revolution," the radio said in a broadcast monitored in Abidjan.
"DON'T COME whining to me, you young whippersnapper," snapped the chairman of the Harvard Committee to Delay Renovations Indefinitely. "Give them acceptable living conditions now and pretty soon they'll be clamoring for diamonds and emeralds. Soon second helpings on steak night! Free replacement ID cards! Revolution! Anarchy!"
One of the most striking aspects of Daniel's list is that five of his ten choices deal more or less with World War II, which is understandable enough for a man who spent much of his professional life covering that cataclysm and its consequences. Yet there is something relentlessly...