Word: barracks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they are needed in the labor force. Most migrants are men in their twenties and thirties, since the immigration authorities discourage them from bringing in their families. Rigorous medical examinations exclude all but the healthiest applicants. Once he has arrived, the migrant lives segregated from native workers--in barrack-like compounds in West Germany; in overcrowded shantytowns in France. Victimized by sleep merchants (housing profiteers), and endangered by unfamiliar machinery, the migrant also has no political rights to speak of--he can be deported at any time, and his residence visa depends upon his work permit. Alone in a strange...
...grossly fat, loose-lipped and emitting sprays of saliva. And above all, there was Kipling the young star, who, after seven years as a journalist in India, dazzled London in 1890 at the age of 24. This is the Kipling who in one astounding year wrote most of his Barrack-Room Ballads, the novel The Light That Failed and seven short stories...
Neither bells pealed nor parades formed when the Korean War armistice was signed in an austere barrack room at Panmunjom-and for good reason...
General Gowon, 37, a popular and honest leader who still lives in a rundown military barrack, has vowed to return the government to civilian hands in 1976. In the meantime, his army -which accounts for an exorbitant 34% of the $1.1 billion federal budget -is enjoying the perquisites of power. Staff officers ride through the capital in chauffeur-driven Mercedes sedans, just as civilian politicians used to do. In the expensive suburbs of Lagos, there are scores of new homes and apartment buildings whose owners are officers and gentlemen. Many Nigerians believe that corruption is worse in Lagos today than...
...Greece at the time of the arrests and was not charged). On the third try, the prosecution said. Panaghoulis gave a seemingly friendly guard detailed written instructions, including advice to spike a colleague's orangeade with sleeping tablets and to collect the guns of other guards ("If any barrack-room orderly sees you taking them, say that you are playing a practical joke"). When the appointed night arrived, Lady Fleming decided it was unwise to use her own car, called Skelton and asked him to rent a car "to drive someone somewhere." Unsuspecting, Skelton obliged. After a leisurely dinner...