Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...afternoon, Sadat mounted the rostrum of the Knesset to deliver?in Arabic?a 57-minute speech notable for its rhetorical passion. He had come to the Knesset, the President said, not to sign a peace treaty but to break down the "barrier of suspicion, fear, illusion and misinterpretation" that for so long has prevented the two neighbors from even talking about peace. In the strongest acknowledgment ever made by an Arab leader of Israel's right to exist, Sadat said, "You want to live with us in this part of the world. We welcome you in sincerity." Sadat promised that...
...lessee. Yeah. Richard Pryor, he spose to be uh orange pickuh, or suth-in, an he fall offuh his ladder one day, smack in frontuh uh labor-union cat who axing foh volunteeahs tuh sign up. Photographuh's rat thayuh, an-OOO-EE!-next day Richard, his pitchuh in duh papuh. Orange-growin boss, he don't want no truck with no union, an he run Richard-name's Leroy Jones in duh movie-rat on outuh town, an nemmine that Leroy has tuh leave his wife behine...
...darkly: "I have a horrible feeling that the pigeons are going to win." Now the fight has been taken up by the city fathers of Reno, who discovered a problem with pigeons-the flying variety, not the birds at the gambling tables. Across the main street arches a neon sign that proclaims Reno to be THE BIGGEST LITTLE CITY IN THE WORLD. Trouble is, pigeons love the sign, and after they had deposited close to a ton of droppings on it, the methane gas created by the decomposing material was ignited by a short circuit. Poof went the sign...
...after the Gang of Four was arrested last year, Chuang, now 36, was kicked out of his job as Minister of Physical Culture and Sports. Reduced to sweeping Peking's streets and publicly denounced-one accusation was that he "persisted in wearing a Swiss-made watch," a sure sign of Western decadence in China-Chuang was said to have fallen into a suicidal depression...
...than money. He was an experimenter of prodigious energy, diving headlong into every problem that presented itself. He worked so hard at inventing that he rarely had time to spend the money he made, except on lab equipment or perhaps a new house. For Edison, money was simply a sign that his inventions were working. He once told a young colleague, "Whatever you do, Sammy, make a brilliant success of it or a brilliant failure. Just do something. Make...