Word: sim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Travelers familiar with the loose safety arrangements at Caracas' Simón Bolivar Airport were not surprised that the two men were able to board the Aeropostal flight carrying pistols. However, the Air France hijackers eluded security checks at Frankfurt International Airport, which boasts some of the toughest safeguards in the world. No airport X-ray machine or magnetic scanner can detect the liquid explosives the men carried. Moreover, some hostages believe the guns were in a mysterious bag delivered to the hijackers by Iranians at the Tehran airport...
...Philadelphia's Julius Erving, who continually sur prises spectators and defenses with moves no one (including him self) is possibly anticipate. One might argue that Erving is consistently amazing, but the reason he so grasps a crowd's imagination, the reason thousands of people roar whenever Erving sim ply lays a hand on the ball, is that the man seems the epitome of the unpredictable, the thoroughly free and spontaneous soul...
...church's defending the rights of the oppressed-but not by political means that have more in common with Marxism than Christianity. Many local Jesuits disagree that any kind of Marxism is their goal. Says Father Jon Sobrino, who teaches at the Universidad Centroamericana José Siméon Cañnas in San Salvador: "We Jesuits have not chosen an ideology. The basic problem is reality itself. When you see corpses or children starving, what makes you react is reality, not some abstract idea...
...every way, the ferocity of the Weimar artists echoed the instability of the society itself, its institutions continually atotter from the assaults of left and right, of which the final result was the triumph of Hitler. But to classify them all (as the catalogue sloppily does) as "realist" is sim ply to abolish the meaning of the word...