Word: se
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first planeload of refugees. More important, Castro was furious about the bad publicity Cuba was reaping in the Latin American press. To counter it, he staged a massive rally commemorating the anniversary of the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion. More than a million Cubans marched through Havana, chanting "iQue se vayan!" (let them go) and hoisting signs reading ABAJO LA GUSANERA (down with the worms), a favorite Havana expression about expatriates...
Frank B. Freidel, Warren Professor of American History, said this week he is not leaving, per se, but retiring a year early to accept a newly created post with a total annual endowment of $100,000 at the University Washington in Seattle...
...weekly Paris Match calls it "that big pimple." Minister for the Universities Alice Saunier-Seïté claims that a "horse registered and was accepted." The place, she has declared, "has become a forbidden city where drugs are sold openly for the Paris region." In fact she once sputtered to a Communist senator, "It is what will become of all France if you ever come to power. Vincennes is Italy...
Most cultures think of the limerent as a bit crazy, but you're in good company, Ralph. Stendhal, Héloïse and Henry VIII were limerent. Lord Byron is the best-known dropout from limerence; after the Sturm und Drang with Lady Caroline Lamb, he simmered down. Something worth thinking about, Ralph...