Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since 1948, when the Afrikaner-dominated National Party came to power, Stellenbosch has been the government's think tank. Its academic stars have provided the theoretical framework for apartheid, philosophical defenses for social engineering and, more recently, treatises on political "power sharing." Stellenbosch has been called the cradle of Afrikanerdom...
Phillip Myburgh, a law student who drafted a denunciation of all remaining apartheid laws that 800 legal scholars approved last month, thinks this is already happening. "What is going on here," he says, "is the incubation of Afrikanerdom's future thought." If he is right, the government's think tank could one day be better known as the place that played a decisive role in the transformation of Afrikanerdom...
...only that, but the heathens happened to have an APB out on me for an abortive coup I plotted a few months back. I could not keep too low a profile. To this end I painted the words "World Socialism Rules" on my gas tank and borrowed the diplomatic plates I found on a sedan at the East German border. Now all I had to worry about was not getting pulled over, since my driver's licence had been revoked for trying to run down the premier of Rumania...
...idea of a grave site at Stanford was suggested to Reagan by his old friend and political adviser W. Glenn Cambell, the director of Hoover Institution, a right-leaning think tank at Stanford...
...example of their potential usefulness: the Warsaw Pact presently enjoys a marked superiority in tanks. Rather than trying to match the Ruskies tank for tank, we should be more innovative. Not even the most advanced Soviet tank, the T-80, could get through an area thoroughly undermined with gopher tunnels dug by RATS (Rodent Anti-Tank Squadrons...