Word: sap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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South Africans were stunned by the sudden bloodshed. Students picketed Western Deep's offices in downtown Johannesburg with signs saying LOW WAGES CAUSE REVOLUTION and SAP [South African Police] is TRIGGER HAPPY. The English-language press called for an inquiry, and the Natal Mercury cautioned that South Africans should take the incident as a warning about the increasing tensions and frustrations generated by the years of apartheid. South Africa's implacable Prime Minister, John Vorster, seemed to take a different view; he praised the police for acting with "considerable restraint." Meanwhile, as the Africans mourned their dead, Western...
...tactics alone cannot explain why hordes of undergraduates crossed Union picket lines. Events beyond the Union's power also helped sap the organization's effort. Even if the organization had waged an exemplary educational campaign geared to a limited work stoppage, last Spring's success could not have been matched...
...craft lavished on these small things almost surpasses belief. So, often, does their sculptural quality: witness Issan's tiny, writhing red dragon netsuke. To complete his inro bearing the motif of a Chinese ship, Ritsuo (1663-1747) had to apply some 80 coats of lacquer-the dangerously toxic sap from a Japanese relative of poison ivy. Lacquer is slow drying; it had to be left for days or even weeks between coats, and laboriously burnished with charcoal and powdered deer horn. To examine these objects is to realize how vast a language of craft has been lost to Japan...
Right before the opening tipoff the Celtics Management pulled off a move straight out of Lefty Dreisell's "Memoirs of Recruiting Tricks I've Use on One Sap or Another...
...toddy tappers of Tamil Nadu triumphed last week after 23 years of temperance. Toddy is a potent and pungent Indian drink fermented from palm sap, traditionally collected by tappers who scamper daily to treetops to retrieve earthenware pots filled with sap tapped from the trees. But toddy tapping became a near-forgotten craft after 1948, when Tamil Nadu responded to a plea by Mohandas Gandhi to save Indians-and their pay envelopes -from toddy...