Word: squish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nature has provided just the right level of ozone for life; if one could squish all of the stuff in the stratosphere, it would amount to a strip of gas about an eighth of an inch thick. The danger is that various man-made gasses may be seeping up into the stratosphere and destroying this delicate balance, causing ozone to be eaten up faster than it is being made...
...jaillike schools make us unhappy, with the result that we become oppressors defending the system to cover up our unhappiness. Family-inspired social conventions teach us subconsciously to do absurd things like giving an inferior role to women. And the values of our competitive capitalist economy teach us to squish anyone who's weaker than...
...just going into the working drawings stage," Edie Groden, director of building services for the school, said yesterday. She said work was "pretty much on schedule" and might begin near the first of next year; when it does, the few offices that are in the building will have to "squish" back inside Gund Hall, Groden said...
...optional service drew about 600 members of the Class of '81, more than enough to fill Memorial Church, where spectators and relatives overflowed into standing room in the aisles. "Tell them to squish," one usher told another uneasily as the processional began
...After his military coup in 1973, Mohammed Daud let dynastic rule continue, but he proclaimed a republic. He relaxed his dictatorial grip so much that his top ministers were authorized to spend up to 70 pounds without his personal approval. So popular was Daud that he was able to squish seven separate attempts to overthrow him before the Marxist coup of 1978. In addition, for three decades Afghanistan has upheld democratic principles by campaigning for an independent Pushtunistan...