Word: things
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American hero and patriot has now gone too far. Enthusiastic as he was for the glorious wars fought by this nation, he was politically naive and simplistic. He never saw battle except on a movie set. He did not know war as the terrible and tragic thing...
...refugees have one important thing going for them: their predecessors, who fled Viet Nam after the fall of Saigon in 1975, have adjusted well to life in Western Europe and the U.S. Though there have been traces of resentment against them, as there have been against immigrants of the past, the Vietnamese as a group have shown themselves to be hard-working and proudly self-sufficient. According to a new study by the University of Maryland, the Vietnamese employment rate in the U.S. is higher than that of the American population as a whole, and the number of Vietnamese refugees...
Egyptian authorities also described Kissinger's visit as "a purely personal thing." One senior Foreign Ministry official said that the Carter Administration "doesn't need him at this point. They're doing fine with the channels of communication they have with us already...
Kermit is sitting on a log in a swamp, and he has just played his big mandolin solo, which went very well. But now, trouble: a fly buzzes past him, and he flicks at it with his tongue. He misses. "First thing to go on a frog, his tongue.'' says Kermit, remembering the great days when he could make the double play-fly to mosquito to gullet-with ease. But Dom DeLuise, the Hollywood agent who has rowed by in a boat, just a touch lost, is tired of wasting time. "I've got to catch...
...movie's best occurs when Rowlf the Dog, who is a barroom pianist, commiserates with Kermit, who has just been deserted by Miss Piggy. The two sing a nice, rueful song about women-the can't-live-with-them, can't-live-without-them kind of thing. When Kermit slopes off into the night. Rowlf philosophizes: "It's not often you see a guy that green have the blues that...