Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sadat quickly signaled his appreciation for Jerusalem's warning. On July 14, he had declared that Egypt would not establish diplomatic relations with Jerusalem for at least five years after a peace treaty was signed. Two days later, after Egyptian intelligence had confirmed that the Israeli information was correct, he announced: "Egypt is ready to sign a peace treaty with Israel that will guarantee Israel her place in the area." It was a momentous change, perhaps the first step toward his trip to Jerusalem four months later...
...newlyweds gave no sign that they were troubled by the speculation. After a couple of quiet days in the Moscow Intourist hotel, they prepared to depart for a Siberian honeymoon at Lake Baikal and the town of Magadan, the site of several Stalin-era prison camps. Afterward, the couple will share a 2½-room flat with Sergei's mother until they buy an apartment of their own. Christina says that she will assume the quiet life of a Russian housewife and start a family. "I don't know why reporters want to find out something spectacular about...
...streets today are still sealed behind a high fence of yellow plastic panels, like a Berlin Wall of environmental quarantine. Every 20 feet a posted sign warns: CONTAMINATED AREA. NO ADMITTANCE. Some of the telephone lines leading to the shuttered houses lie slack in lush summer growths of hydrangea that bloom unattended. But no matter, because the phones never ring any more. Two years after the disaster known as "Italy's Hiroshima," the core of Seveso is a dead community, and no one knows when-if ever-it will become habitable again...
...much a comment on their ignorance as an example of the changes in humor over 300 years. Cuckold jokes were a scream in 1675, but they are an anachronism now. Moreover, words don't mean the same things now as they did then. When Sparkish calls Horner "the sign of a man" after a long discussion of the street signs in the neighborhood, he is referring to Horner's supposed sexual malady, "sign" meaning the shadow of a man. Uh, right...
During the '60s, many West German women accepted nudity in serious magazines as a sign of emancipation, not exploitation. But West German feminists have been at least a decade behind their U.S. counterparts. Only this year did a West German woman fight and win the first equal-pay lawsuit. With the Stern suit, says Schwarzer, "we have set into motion a change of consciousness...