Word: worded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yesterday, both East Germany and Czechoslovakia accused West Germany of breaking its word by harboring new refugees, going back on conditions it agreed to in gaining release of the earlier refugee throng...
...deposit a three-year-old in another's care for a week away from home is often taken as a sign of affluence. In fact, since the economic reforms have raised the living standards of so many Chinese, a complaint about quan tuo is that without guanxi -- connections, a word I was to hear repeatedly -- no amount of wealth can secure a coveted sleep-away space...
...know anything about the work here, so I can't judge product quality very well. I wish I could go somewhere else, but I may be stuck here for the rest of my life. I could learn the job, but moving up is almost impossible without guanxi" -- that word again -- "which I don't have. If I had it, I maybe could have arranged it so I wasn't sent here in the first place...
...pours out his complaints. Says he: "We thought we would give him land to grow whatever he wanted. We wanted him to bring his own grain, tractors, herbicides and combines, so he could show us what can be done. As it turns out, he's a bezdelnik" -- the Russian word for loafer...
Eighteen bombings rocked Bogota last week as the cocaine warlords stepped up their counterattack against the government's crackdown on drug traffickers. But the frightened citizens of Colombia were also rattled by word that Justice Minister Monica de Greiff had resigned her post, just two months after taking the job. De Greiff, 32, quit after receiving numerous death threats to herself, her Argentine husband and their three-year...