Word: classing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...When there's a bright spot, like the rise of a middle class in Kenya or Nigeria's return to civilian rule, we're certainly eager to cover it," Lamb adds...
...midweek 47,000 reservists had reported for duty in response to President Banisadr's call-up of the class of 1977-78. In cars and pickup trucks and on motorbikes, thousands of small armed militia groups "headed toward the front. Civilians organized convoys of food, clothing, medicine and fuel. As each newly formed battalion set off, townspeople showered it with flowers and made it pass under a copy of the Holy Koran -a Persian tradition aimed at exorcising evil. With stoic fatalism the young bride of a soldier who had just left for the fighting remarked: "Life...
Since 1949 the tiny F.D.P., whose members are mostly middle class and professional, has been in the crucial swing role. By siding again with the Social Democrats instead of the conservatives, the Free Democrats aimed not only to block the election of Strauss, whom they regard as an extremist, but also to help Schmidt neutralize the left wing of his SPD. Said F.D.P. Chairman Hans-Dietrich Genscher: "Our mission is to ensure government from the center, not from the fringes, left or right...
...better comic characters: "I got to my train d.d. and it was the Cheltenham Flier full of respectable stockbrokers . . . and I walked down the train picking up all the mens hats and looking inside and saying: 'People who go to such bad hatters shouldn't travel first class.' So I am ashamed to meet any neighbors now." Waugh's journeys from offensiveness to remorse were often spectacular, and no one observed them more critically than...
...good satire, the skit from Chicago's Second City Theater strikes within a hair of real life: young adults in America are coming back to roost. Among some ethnic groups, the Old World style of several generations living under one roof has long persisted. Until now the middle class has exhorted its young to go west, go to college, go to work -in short, to get out. But those catalysts of unwed cohabitation in the '70s-inflation, recession and rising divorce rates -are now persuading young people to cleave unto their parents...