Word: saws
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...also leads to some interesting combinations, like the hip-hop-talking teenager I saw in Belle Fourche, South Dakota, who was wearing cowboy boots and chewing Red-Man Tobacco. The town of Belle Fourche was a hub for cattle roundups and cattle sales for the past two centuries. Apparently, now it is the hub of the rap world, the place from which the next Puff Daddy will emerge...
...Currie also testified that she tried to avoid learning details of the relationship between the President and Ms. Lewinsky. On one occasion, Ms. Lewinsky said of herself and the President, "As long as no one saw us--and no one did--then nothing happened." Ms. Currie responded: "Don't want to hear it. Don't say any more. I don't want to hear any more...
...this chest pounding made for a wonderful hula under the coconuts. And is there anyone among us who ever saw bubble-head Suzanne Somers pitch the Thighmaster on TV and didn't want to raid the kitchen for a bowl of frosting and a few Hot Pockets...
...cold war also had plenty of action, and the series makes the most of this as well. The failed Hungarian revolution of 1956, for example, provides grim footage and heartbreaking reminiscences. Weeping, an agricultural technician recalls how often he was tempted to leave the barricades, but when he saw the 14- and 15-year-old boys fighting beside him, he could not. "The shame kept me there," he says. Of course, the hot wars in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and elsewhere offer plenty of drama, and it is exciting to hear a mercenary talk about fighting in Angola. But the real...
This is Russia's historical mistake, and it goes back to Peter the Great. He admired Western factories and ships, but he never saw the spiritual and cultural forces behind them. This mistake has shaped Russia's destiny down to this time. Both sausage and freedom were imported into Russia rather than attained indigenously. That is why we have neither sausage nor freedom now. A citizenry that failed to cope with freedom is not yet a civil society. As the Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov put it, A talking creature is not necessarily a human being...