Word: things
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...official language is very much framed by the "us/them" attitude. Frustrated in attempts to purge foreigners from their native soil--largely because the foreigners have made a great contribution to local prosperity--many citizens in Arizona, Colorado and Florida found making English the official state language the next best thing...
...knew they were better than 2-6," Glover said. "We just kept doing the same thing, and we had a few breaks in the second half...
...private club that doesn't serve public needs is bound by the same laws as a public restaurant. Unfortunately women submit to this rule, but I don't think taunting them will help. I will also put on the record a request: If I ever ask such a thing of a girlfriend, she is to slap me in the face and say she'll never see me again...
...this is not the main thing. What's at issue now is not his mistakes but the line that he embodies and carries out. If he were not there, Stalinists could seize power and nobody knows what would happen. It's necessary to put up a fight and prevent the ouster of Khrushchev...
...devising a story, therefore, the first thing that comes to my mind is an image," explained Italo Calvino, Italy's master fabulist, shortly before his death in 1985. Some of his images -- like that of the boy philosophe who scrambled up an oak and never descended again in The Baron in the Trees -- became the emblems of masterpieces. But Calvino also crafted stories from even more pared-down beginnings. He built that dazzling picaresque of the mind, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, from just the thought of an activity: reading. The protagonist has every book he begins...