Word: warts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...romantic subplot brings on the at tractive Carolyn Lagerfelt and her stal wart suitor (Philip Kerr). The sun may have set on the British Empire, but the Union Jack is waving brightly on Broadway...
...world map the Territory of the Afars and Issas resembles a wart on the Horn of Africa. In reality, it is not much more attractive. Most of its 9,000 square miles (roughly the size of New Hampshire) is desert, a desolate mixture of searing sand, thorny scrub and boulder-strewn hills. Its estimated population of 200,000 is split between two unharmonious tribes, the nomadic Afars and the more industrious Issas, and about 90% of the inhabitants are illiterate. Djibouti, the territory's capital and only city of any size, has some of Africa's worst slums...
...whole house filled with prams, prams sideways up the stairs, prams in the back garden." On women at work: "The population is divided into people who like work and do it and people who hate work and don't do it-they are as distinct as wart hogs and race horses. And a lot of women turn out to be horses-some of them Percherons." On women in America: "Women have such a bad time there that they naturally feel bitterness. Thanks to Freud the whole of the United States is covered with millions of grown men grizzling about...
...whole question of race relations is an amorphous one. I cannot give a summary of how one alters such a multifaceted situation. Racism is not a wart on a hand that you can cut off and expect to be gone...
...last week, when Antigua staged its parliamentary elections, the tune had changed. Outside the Green House, his state residence in St. Johns, Bird was often taunted by children who poked cruel fun at his wart-pocked face. Opponent George Herbert Walter, a former Birdman who established a rival political party and labor union four years ago, coined the slogan: "Spread the word, sweep out Bird." Walter, 32, charged that Antigua's prosperity was cruelly selective. He said that the hotels and refinery hired Antiguans for menial work but reserved the best jobs for whites, that the casino collected millions...