Word: torched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rostock have continued to spray sparks across Germany: at week's end, more than 150 attacks on asylum-seeking foreigners had been registered since the mayhem began. In Ketzin, 10 miles from Berlin, 44 Auslander barely escaped with their lives when the building they inhabited was razed by torch throwers. Official calls for special police powers to confront the skinheads and neo-Nazis did not seem to deter anyone. Although there was no breakdown in civic order, the attacks reached to the front door of the government: right-wingers threw fire bombs at a house of asylum seekers a mile...
...deeper sense, though, the weathered, down-to-earth city seemed too rooted and too various to be greatly transformed by pervasive Cobi (as the Olympic mascot is called). Barcelona appeared ready to take over the world, and not the other way round. In Seville, when the Olympic torch arrived on its way to the opening ceremonies, crowds flocked into the Plaza de San Francisco to snap up Cobi dolls, key rings and T shirts, and catch a flash of history. In Barcelona, by contrast, life continued as usual. It flows and crests from dawn to dawn here: sunny Sunday mornings...
...wife's crusade against rock lyrics will add some much needed "family values" points to the ticket. Above all -- it is the No. 1 talking point after the obligatory assertion that Gore could succeed Clinton without missing a beat -- Gore represents John Kennedy's earlier claim that the "torch has been passed to a new generation" -- and this much, at least, is certainly true. Clinton and Gore are the baby boomers (two of almost 80 million) taking on the last of the World War II-era leadership cadre -- which has enjoyed an uninterrupted run from that conflict's supreme commander...
Peretz said that Clinton's pick was "goodsymbolically and practically" He said he believesthat it is time for the Democratic party, as wellas the nation, to "pass the torch" to moreyouthful candidates...
These ideas are mild compared with those Robb expressed in the past. Before remaking his image, he castigated blacks and Jews, embraced Hitler and endorsed killing homosexuals, calling for "the death penalty to the faggot slime." His newspapers (the Torch and White Patriot) have featured racial slurs including a cartoon showing a hanging of a black man and a bigoted ditty, The Negro National Anthem. Despite his toned-down persona, he still hawks copies of Mein Kampf and swears the Holocaust is a hoax...