Word: straw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is one last place to see: the roof of the bunker where Samer and Colonel Azmi were encountered last September. At the time, this roof was a room, an office, with straw walls, a straw roof, furniture and people. Over there stood the colonel's Swedish modern desk, disproportionately large and stylish. Red fake-leather chairs were positioned with their backs to the walls on two sides of the office. On them sat a dozen of the colonel's men-his inner circle perhaps. None spoke but the colonel, though all nodded approvingly at his harangue...
...roof, nor the walls. Nothing remains on top of this bunker any more, including a portion of the roof itself, heaved high in a corner by an Israeli artillery hit. Where the colonel delivered his harangue, the noon sun drills. There is nothing else but silence and loose straw. No one who did not know what function the straw originally served could possibly guess that this was once a place of importance...
...marry." The soldiers roared. The boy, not realizing that he had said something funny, froze in bewilderment. In answer to another question, Samer said that he would like to live in a world without soldiers. He said so there, standing where the Swedish modern desk was, where the straw shifts back and forth now. After the boy left the room his father swore. "If I am killed, my son will carry...
Though Jencks says the article presents no radically new information and has drawn no striking public response, he predicts a possible new shift towards Achievement tests among educators, citing Harvard's new emphasis as one "straw in the wind. "Less selective schools which use scores to identify strong possible applicants rather than choose among them, seem to Jencks particularly likely to upgrade the Achievements...
...revolution, the Pontiff issued a rousing call for "fundamental human rights" and better living conditions for rural workers. Afterward, he stepped out into the crowd, pushing through a tight police cordon to shake hands. At one point he beckoned to a cluster of men and women wearing broad-brimmed straw hats and blankets draped over their shoulders. Security broke down completely. John Paul was engulfed in a sea of peasants...