Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...After some hesitation he accepted the post. The choice of Norman Tebbit, a blunt-spoken former airline pilot and staunch right-winger, as Prior's replacement signaled a toughening government stance toward the unions. Amid speculation that Tebbit would move swiftly, starting with an attack on the closed shop, he insisted he would be rational: "I am a hawk but I'm not a kamikaze...
...will not rise for almost three hours, but already the line has begun to form in front of the austere, dimly lit shop. A panel truck pulls up to the rear entrance, and two burly workers, their white smocks spattered with red stains, deliver their precious cargo: a day's supply of meat. Within three hours, the choicest cuts-pork chops, ham, boneless beef-will be gone. The late arrivals will have to make do with sausage, soup bones or chicken. Or perhaps nothing...
...grim-faced, speaking little and frequently checking the time. If they wait too long in the meat line, they may find no fresh bread, milk or cheese. Some shoppers solve this problem by having someone hold a place for them in one line while they scurry over to another shop and queue up for something else. That tactic has its risks. If the first line moves too fast, the shopper might find that he has lost his place when he gets back...
...with infants always received unquestioned priority. No longer. Now those who head for the special "line on the left" are often pelted with insults-or worse. "Who told you to get pregnant now?" snapped a middle-aged woman last week as a young mother-to-be entered a butcher shop in downtown Warsaw. "Here comes the little cripple," muttered another shopper as a handicapped woman hobbled toward the counter. "She'll probably skip home when she gets around the corner...
Meanwhile, the Mujahedin and other anti-Khomeini forces attacked Islamic guards in Tehran and elsewhere. The guerrillas reportedly dragged five Islamic guards out of a Tehran shop and executed them on a street corner; they were also said to have killed 26 personal envoys of Khomeini in revolutionary courts around the country. In Tabriz, a man exploded a hand grenade strapped to his waist, killing himself, Khomeini Aide Ayatullah Assadollah Madani and at least six others as they participated in noon prayers. At week's end, for the first time since the ouster of President Abolhassan Banisadr, anti-Khomeini...