Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mannerless youth of the '60s and '70s have unfortunately passed their poor behavior on to their offspring. Young people today think that "Thank you," "You are welcome" and "Excuse me" are subserviences to be avoided. This samS syndrome is reflected in current advertising models. The sweet-and-lovely look is out; the tough-hooker pose with unkempt hair and sloppy clothes...
...roughhewn wood posts and a conical thatched roof, is known as zawya. In the Afar language, that means the house of the dead. Although it is not long after dawn, 26 bodies have already been wrapped in filthy burlap shrouds on the earthen floor. The air is sickly sweet with the smell of decay. Inside, in accordance with Muslim custom, Hussein Yussuf is tenderly washing the shriveled body of a three-year-old boy. "This is the first water this child has had for a long, long time," says the 60-year-old man. In the past four weeks, Yussuf...
...Norwegian wood. He was the first to admit that he was stuck with himself. "What you see is what you get," he said. On bread-and-butter issues, Mondale did not stray much from the oldtime Democratic religion he had learned from Hubert Humphrey. He spoke a sweet and moving message about the values of America. In Cleveland, toward the end of the campaign, he explained his political vision: "We must strengthen, defend, preserve and comfort one another." Mondale paraphrased the words of John Winthrop as he led his flock of Pilgrims to New England...
...which the U.S. paid $780 for a screwdriver, Americans can take heart over one sweet deal made by their national Government. For $232,371.83, we got a house for the President that has lasted nearly 200 years and will look good for centuries more. For that we can thank George Washington, one tough whistle blower...
Together with their language and literature, the Sikhs cherish their religious customs and institutions. A newcomer is initiated by being anointed with sweet water that has been stirred in an iron bowl with a double-edged dagger. Sikhs pray together on equal footing in gurdwaras, or temples, through which reverberate chanted verses from the sacred book known as the Granth Sahib. The holiest of holies is the Golden Temple at Amritsar, some 250 miles northwest of Delhi, the shrine that was stormed by government troops five months ago. Rejecting all idols as false, the Sikh (the name means disciple) draws...