Word: wrecking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hospital, but back at the clubhouse Loser dies of shock while puffing pot. As the fuzz move in, the choppers move out for Loser's funeral in a chapel draped with Nazi banners. The-rite soon turns into a riot, during which the stompers stomp the preacher, wreck the chapel, and gang rape the dead man's grieving girl friend...
...Erhard into taking it in order to keep Barzel out-even though Erhard himself has a well-known dislike for backstage politics. After last week's bombshell, Erhard met with his party presidium in Bonn, heard Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder argue angrily that Barzel's proposals would wreck NATO, and issued a glacial statement sniffing that Barzel's ideas were strictly "personal opinions...
...their national convention last June, the mayors even gave serious consideration to a resolution condemning the OEO for "trying to wreck local government by setting the poor against city hall." Though it was rejected, Washington got the message. "We never said that the poor need to control the programs," said Shriver. "But neither should city hall nor the welfare agencies. No group should have complete control. It must be shared." Indeed, Shriver has held up funds from Los Angeles and Chicago because the poor were poorly represented on the boards, and has threatened to cut off others unless they give...
...eternal" influence of leaders. Shelley's 1817 poem "Ozymandias" describes a similar despot upon whose statue was engraved: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:/Look on my works, ye Mighty and despair!" And, as with the Ghanaian, "Nothing beside remains. Round the decay/Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare/The lone and level sands stretch far away...
...wick. Two jagged lines on the outside marked the places where a handle, the most fragile part of a ceramic piece, had been fastened. By studying the shapes of the lamp and comparing it with another lamp taken from a local tomb, archeologists were able to date the wreck--at about...