Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...twist of dirty cloth. Inside the wrapping are five diamonds of varying sizes. The man brings out an eyeglass and inspects them carefully. He reaches into his truck and pulls out a well-worn backpack. It appears to be full of U.S. dollars. He counts out several thousand dollars and hands them to the woman. "There will be more," the woman tells him as he prepares to drive away. "Maybe next week...
...French, Dunn acknowledges, faced a broader revolutionary challenge than the Americans had a few years earlier. Wresting political autonomy from a power across an ocean was not the same as toppling a thousand-year-old home-grown feudal system. But, the author argues, the French could have learned one lesson from America and thereby avoided a bloody philosophical blunder. Instead of following the Founding Fathers' careful protections of individual liberties, the French made the unity of their people the highest goal. "Curiously," Dunn writes, "all the qualities that had traditionally been attributed to the quasi-divine king--oneness, indivisibility, infallibility...
...Yeah, It's really good. I mean, we sold out in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle was nearly full, New York was about 800, I think, out of a capacity of a thousand...
...known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the light of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say 'This was their finest hour.'" These words, along with Churchill's deeds, moved a country to withstand the most overwhelming odds and to save mankind...
...populations in Africa, North America, Europe and elsewhere. Journeys across oceans for wars and police actions, and trips home in body bags. Forays around southern capes in tall ships and across Eurasia in caravans. And just as this millennium is a Western conceit, the story of the past thousand years is largely the story of the tourism of Western peoples over the span of the earth, to encroach on and economically dominate the rest of the world. If fewer representatives of the wealthiest peoples scatter to the shrines and monuments of the cultures they superseded to chant and toast...