Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prospects for a settlement on Namibia. We do not stand in the way of independence for [Namibia]. As a matter of fact, we are in a hurry because that territory has been a tremendous financial burden to us. The question is who is going to fill the vacuum when we leave. We are not going to allow Communist forces, at the point of a gun, to subject the people of Namibia. But we won't stand in the way of independence, and we hope that the Western countries will share with us the burden of developing...
Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner...
...entropy is contagious. After a while Orlando is confessing his own slavish wish for a nesting birdbrain to take over: "I experience this vacuum just a few inches above my head. This empty space of unknowing...
...beautiful mansions. Realizing that these diverse classes will all contribute to the future. Brown portrays the next generation's hope as a bright mulatto child. Catherine Despite its span of only a decade. Southern Discomfort stresses awareness of past and future. The present does not exist in a vacuum, memories of a great-aunt's youth are recalled and young Catherine learns of her lineage. Life continues, and we may be a bitchy, bickering family. Brown implies, but we are all related somehow in this mad continuum...
...easy to imagine places that could become the Sarajevo of the nuclear age: Eastern Europe, where armed resistance to Soviet occupation could spread; Iran, where the U.S.S.R. might be tempted to fill the vacuum created by the collapse of Khomeini's rule; the Arabian Peninsula, where the U.S. Rapid Deployment Force and Soviet airborne units could fight over the oilfields; the Caribbean Basin, where even last week Washington believed Brezhnev was hinting at the possibility of another Cuban missile crisis...