Word: sabers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year; only 16.6% of non-Hispanic families fare as badly. For the second quarter of 1978 the Hispanic unemployment rate was 8.9%, while the national average was 5.8%. As a group, Hispanics are the most undereducated of Americans?despite their own deep belief in the maxim, Saber es poder (Knowledge is power). Only 40% have completed high school, vs. 46% of U.S. blacks and 67% of the whites. In urban ghetto areas, the school dropout rate among Hispanics frequently reaches 85%. Language is an obvious handicap, but the vocal Hispanic demand for bilingual education raises particular problems...
...role "extremist Islamic marxists" have played in this month's protests. One only has to look at Prime Minister Ian Smith's current hedging about the progress of his much-vaunted "internal settlement" in Rhodesia to see that behind this combination of internal face-lift and cold-war saber-rattling lies the separate attempt to cling to power...
...later is likely to suffer from a sprained or twisted ankle, knee inflammation, stress fracture of the leg bone, shin splints, hamstring pulls, low-back pain, heel pain or blood blister of the toes. Says Berson: "Our ancestors evolved by running barefoot across a grassy plain to escape saber-toothed tigers. The human leg is not designed for running long distances on cement...
Foote told of the Confederate valor. Of General Armistead, who, with his hat on his saber, reached for the muzzle of a Union cannon, then fell with mortal wounds. He told of retreat. A young Southerner going down the slope walked backward so he would not be hit in the back. Robert E. Lee met his men with tears in his eyes to tell them it was his fault. "He pretty much told the truth," said Carter, pondering the lapses of judgment that are now attributed to Lee, who was almost superhuman in all other ways, in most other places...
Brown's visit to White Sands and his major speech later in the week in San Francisco were not acts of saber rattling. His performance was part of the most carefully coordinated Administration attempt so far to articulate its defense strategy and its foreign policy goals. The Administration did seem, at least for now, to have harmonized its dissonant voices. The theme was clear: America is second to none in strength, but is nevertheless committed to long-term cooperation-with the Soviets wherever possible...