Word: surely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tales of the exuberant black metropolis that flourished in the 1920s; that in no other New York City district can you find the vitality and graciousness of Harlem on a , good day. Maybe, too, the foreigner wants to brag to friends back home that he saw Harlem and survived. Sure enough, on a bus trip run by Harlem Spirituals Inc., the black guide announces -- in German, the language of many of the passengers -- that they are passing the spot "where the late son of the late Senator Robert Kennedy was suspected of buying drugs...
...Yalta II," a repetition of Franklin Roosevelt's unwitting sellout of Eastern Europe in 1945. The State Department bureaucracy is unanimously (though anonymously) convinced that a superpower negotiation on the fate of Europe would offend the Europeans. Last month James Baker publicly floated the idea, without quite endorsing it. Sure enough, transatlantic cables poured into Foggy Bottom with protests and warnings. The British Ambassador in Washington sought, and received, assurances that the Administration was not embracing the plan. Last week Kissinger insisted that his purpose is not to redo Yalta but to undo it. His proposal, he says...
...testes or urine of all sorts of animals. One Frenchman favored the flesh of a crocodile ground into powder and mixed with sweet wine ("Works miracles," he promised). Some Europeans taught that eating an apple that had been soaked in the sweat of your lover's armpit was a sure means of seduction -- provided, of course, that you had prior access to your lover's armpit...
...doctor's aren't sure exactly what is wrong," Cardi says, "but I had been improving until recently. Now it's starting to bother me again, but I'm still playing. It's a love of the game, a love of the competition, that keeps me interested...
...should be locked in a room with the most aggressive sales reps from the top 50 insurance firms in the U.S. He should be let out only when he has agreed to purchase policies equal to the value of his entire salary. Care should be taken, however, to make sure that he is not eaten alive...