Word: watered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campaign for mayor of Concepcion, I was very shy. When I felt that people were looking at me, I just wanted to hide. So my husband really forced me to come out in public. I would have done anything but that. I had to ride in a carabao ((water buffalo)) cart so that people could say, "Look, Ninoy's wife may have studied in New York and she may come from a wealthy family, but she can ride in a carabao cart." This was not my idea. We walked in the rice fields, and once we had to cross...
...contemplates the enormous challenges before her, Aquino can take heart, perhaps, from her rare gift for surprise. Stalin is said to have claimed that "you can't make a revolution with silk gloves." Edward Bulwer- Lytton, the British 19th century novelist, believed that "revolutions are not made with rose water." And Oliver Wendell Holmes pronounced that "revolutions are not made by men in spectacles." In coming to power on a wing and a prayer, Aquino has already disproved them...
Olebogeng will stay for three months, building a fence for his parents and doing other chores; he hopes that someday they will have a few luxuries, like electricity or running water or an indoor toilet. He will also court his girlfriend Mary. "I miss her all the time, but I can't help being away," he said. "I have to work." Nervous about what to buy her for Christmas, he promised to take her to the nearest town, more than 40 miles away, and let her select a gift...
...time the fish are ready for sale, the payoffs have added 40% to the cost. Since prices are set by the government, vendors must find ways of overcharging in order to make a profit. Some tack a few cents onto the bill, while others tip the scales by sloshing water into the weighing pan. Complained one Prague resident: "It's enough to make you want to eat pork...
...resolution to restore the H2O allotment next year was introduced, provoking a three-hour committee debate, half serious, half silly. "Water is life," intoned Bernards Mudho of Kenya, but Maria Regina Serrao Emerson of Portugal called the debate "frivolous." At meeting's end, after Even Fontaine-Ortiz of Cuba facetiously noted that overtime pay for translators and guards had cost as much as any water saved, the resolution was referred to the General Assembly's plenary session, which tabled it without further thirst- inducing debate...