Word: zeke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most of all, there is disillusion and frustration. Sergeant Zeke Anderson (Terence Knox), the sympathetic Everysoldier in Tour of Duty, confides to his ex-wife his feelings about the war: "It's just like everything you hear. It's death and destruction, it's hell on earth, it's twisted limbs. I just want it to be over." An injured grunt in China Beach expresses his despair even more starkly: "Nobody here gets out alive. Breathing maybe. Eating. Sleeping. You ride the bus to work, cash a paycheck, wait. But your life is out there . . . always...
...Friday morning, my shift over, I met for the first time Dr. Zeke. The good doctor, and I am not quite sure what his speciality was, wore a black velvet jacket and a rose in his lapel. His hair had been permed and he spoke in a thick Black dialect. A little on the hyperactive side, the Doctor tried desperately to convince Karl to give him some free food...
After telling us that he was "so po" that he had been born in the back of a taxi, Karl retorted he was "so po"' that he had been born on a hubcap in the middle of the road. Dr. Zeke fell off his chair and ran out of the Tasty into the middle of the street...
...sequences, more than 2000 new frames-- and we'll all put down our books, walk out of our classes and spend the day with our new treasures, with our old friends, with Zonker. Mark. B D,. Joanie Rick, Uncle Duke, Rev. Sloan Huney, Mr. Slackmeyer, Phred, Bernie, J.J., Boopsie Zeke, Lacey and Dick Davenport, Roland B. Hedley Jr., Jimmy and jenny Thudpucker. Ellie. Howard, Riley, Woody, Lava-Lava, Dr. Dan Asher, kirby, Barney, Weinburger, Duane, Ginny, Clyde, Nicole and Mike Doonesbury...
...exempt the maritime industry from antitrust laws, a reprieve for timber companies that hold $2 billion in unfulfilled federal contracts, an exemption that would allow beer distributors to set up local monopolies and an antitrust waiver for the National Football League. There was even a bill that would exempt Zeke's Floatin' Bait, which is manufactured by a company in La Canada Flintridge, Calif., from a 10% excise tax. Despite Metzenbaum's guard, a few yuletide goodies may slip into law, including a $500,000 chimpanzee colony for New Mexico State University. Not that the issue...