Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...waiting to learn whether Rose bet on Thoroughbreds or himself. All around, the Lotto jingles play accompaniment to the mystery. At the next World Series, whether Rose is there or not, one thing is sure. The mayors of the competing towns will wager a bushel of rutabagas against a barrel of pistachios on the great American pastime...
...democracy in China or trying to harness those forces in the Soviet Union and Poland, they could not escape potent reminders of the most ominous and fundamental of all of Marxism's contradictions: the one between people power and the power that Mao Zedong said comes from the barrel...
...infamous Gang of Four, headed by Mao's wife Jiang Qing, and the ascendance to power two years later of Deng. Unable to accept the new world crying out from the streets, Deng appears to have reverted to a hoary Maoist maxim: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." With devastating carnage, Deng proved he could unleash the firepower. But now that his regime is riding the military tiger, can it dismount without being torn to pieces...
Power, Mao Zedong famously sneered, grows out of the barrel of a gun. But the preacher of Chinese Communism neglected to add that the will to fire is a prerequisite when the target is not intimidated by threats and when a society is prepared to resist those with the guns by peaceful means. A week ago, certainly two, the protests might have been extinguished with the number of casualties usual for large demonstrations -- 20, 50, perhaps several hundred deaths. Now, the government might have to kill thousands before the protests would cease...
Imagine it. You are chained to a radiator in a bare, dank room. You never see the sun. When your captors fear that a noise in the night is an impending rescue attempt, you are slammed up against the wall, the barrel of a gun pressed against your temple. Each day you have 15 minutes to shower, brush your teeth and wash your underwear in the bathroom sink. Your bed is a mat on the floor. One of your fellow hostages tries to escape, and the guards beat him senseless. Another tries to commit suicide. One day you too reach...