Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seas, Tariel was the perfect combination of vice and virtue. He could slash a man in two with a snap of his whip, slay 10,000 enemies in a single sortie, then weep like a woman at the thought of his own cruelty. Stalin went Tariel one better: he shed no tears. Yet all of Georgia wept when its favorite son died...
William Arrowsmith is a 42-year-old professor of classics at the University of Texas who smiles often, likes to shed his tie in class, melts coeds with his boyish good looks. He is the kind of professor, says a colleague, "who doesn't construe his life as one thing and his job as another-he wears his humanity on his sleeve." The gentle Arrowsmith also burns with the notion that education has been turning sour ever since the 5th century, and he is making himself one of the most caustic critics of academe in the 20th...
Blood Curses. The massacre began at the airport near the 5th Battalion's home city of Kano. A Lagos-bound jet had just arrived from London, and as the Kano passengers were escorted into the customs shed, a wild-eyed soldier stormed in, brandishing a rifle and demanding "Ina Nyammari?"-Hausa for "Where are the damned Ibos?" There were Ibos among the customs officials, and they dropped their chalk and fled, only to be shot down in the main terminal by other soldiers. Screaming the blood curses of a Moslem holy war, the Hausa troops turned the airport into...
...generals themselves were busy choosing sides for the presidential power struggle that lies ahead once a constitution is written. Ky and his chief of state Thieu were, in fact, pondering the step taken in similar circumstances three years ago by South Korea's General Chung Hee Park, who shed his military uniform to run as presidential candidate at the head of an ostensibly civilian party...
...Teamsters will negoiate a contract for the shed workers and the NFWA will negotiate for the fieldworkers. DiGiorgio will probably try to make the Teamster contract the dominant one, but forcing its second field contract still constituted an enormous step forward for the NFWA...