Word: shuns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...five months, but not abnormally so.' " After long agony, the child is born. Seeing him for the first time, the mother says, "He's like a troll, or a goblin or something." Harriet names him Ben and brings him home to his father and siblings, who learn to shun and fear him. The infant is physically precocious and incredibly strong, and he betrays no trace of human sympathy or fellowship. A dog and a cat about the premises die mysteriously, apparently strangled. David and Harriet come to view Ben as an enemy, one who "had willed himself to be born...
...doesn't care about nationalities," observed a Western diplomat in Moscow. "He only cares about who works most efficiently." Yet events seem to have thrust the issue upon his attention -- with a vengeance. He devoted a lengthy passage to the subject in his 1987 book Perestroika, vowing "not to shun this or other problems which may crop up." By last month he was calling nationalism the "most fundamental, vital issue of our society." And in the wake of last week's violence, he had to realize that it was becoming one of the greatest challenges to his own leadership...
...look at New Hampshire campaigning. ABC, locked into Olympics coverage for most of the evening, squeezed in reports from Anchorman Peter Jennings before a half- hour wrap-up at midnight Eastern standard time. ABC's last-of-the-evening program was, bravely, the first of the political season to shun the obligatory candidate interviews. A good thing: by that time, one more round of "spin $ control" from Gephardt, Simon, Kemp, et al., might have caused mass defections to the Soviet hockey team...
Last week, with the Reagan presidency in deepened shadows, the house that Jerry built was entering a twilight of its own. Falwell abruptly announced that he was resigning as president of Moral Majority and the related Liberty Federation. He expects to continue sounding off on politics, but will shun the organizing and lobbying of the past eight years. Henceforth, declared Falwell, it is "back to preaching, back to winning souls...
...Little Weak? Sorta drowsy? Recite "The Bells" aloud into a tape deck, pop your recording into an industrial strength ghetto blaster, and let-errrrrip, full volume, for dozing neighbors. Run-DMC's got nothin' on Poe...though they might make a mean team. "The TIN-too-NAB-yoo-LAY-shun of duh BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS! HUNH...