Word: spit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...notion that the PLO invited its own destruction and dispersion in order to "roast the Israelis on the spit of world opinion" is, more than anything, extremely humorous; It is also bellied by Sharon's openly stated aims, made public after the war (see the interview with Orion Fallacy from September), most of which are unabashedly aggressive...
...them only in passings, and he seems oblivious to the repeated border incidents which the PLO knew would eventually draw the Israelis into Lebanon. Is Timerman so naive, so purblind as to think the PLO hadn't intended to use the Lebanese they had so long terrorized as a spit on which to roust the Israelis in world opinion? It was an option they always knew they...
...similarly gloomy picture. The central dilemma for all of these countries is the same--they depend on exports to the United States and other developed nations for economic solvency. But the industrialized world, in the midst of a recession, cannot continue to gobble up Latin American goods and spit out cash or other products in return. Instead, it is erecting more and more exchange barriers--despite all the free trade rhetoric--in order to protect its own products. So the coffee, sugar, fruit and vegetables from the South have nowhere...
...have been new. Now only an occasional '82 Buick Regal or Chrysler Le Baron gleams hopefully among older Coupe de Villes, Torinos and Caprice Classics. A Thunderbird stands in ruinous decay next to the embarrassing glint of a new Toyota. An ancient Ford station wagon, held together by spit and masking tape, boasts a bumper sticker that says: THUMBS UP FOR MICHIGAN...
...face may seem familiar, and so may the military bearing. In four years of film acting, David Keith, 28, has had trouble getting out of boot-camp. He was a G.I. in Friendly Fire, a sailor in Back Roads and a spit-and-polish Navy flyer candidate in An Officer and a Gentleman. In The Lords of Discipline, Keith is back in uniform again, as a cadet at a Southern military academy. He gets the girl-Sophie Ward, 17-and by now has got military technique down permanently. "After all these movies," says Keith, "I've at least learned...