Chapter 2: Words in the News
Even on a remote mountaintop, we are never more than a few seconds away from the news. Cell phones hook us to the Internet for instant traffic and weather reports. Satellite radio publicizes international events, disasters, sports scores, and gossip about celebrities. Television brings the world into our living rooms. In a world so small that events in Europe and Asia affect U.S. financial markets within moments, we need to broaden our understanding of words in the news.
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| Part 1 accord cartel entrepreneur appease catastrophe intervene attrition corroborate ominous bureaucracy diplomacy renegade | Part 2 apprehend hegemony radical chaos pacify liberal defer supplant conservative epitome thrive reactionary |
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Trivia
1. Sports quotesare often amusing. Here are some famous ones:
Whoever said, “It's not whether you win or lose that counts,” probably lost. (Martina Navratilova, American tennis player)
All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street folks will say, “There goes the greatest hitter that ever lived.” (Ted Williams)
Always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures. (Chief Justice Earl Warren of the U.S. Supreme Court)
I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times, I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. (Michael Jordan)
If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score? (Vince Lombardi)
I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I've been thrown out of so many. (Casey Stengel, baseball manager)
2. Catastrophe is the only word to describe the destruction when, near the ancient city of Naples in 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius erupted and, within hours, buried Pompeii, a city of 20,000 people. Seventeen-year-old Pliny the Younger, who was in a city seventy miles away, records that
You could hear the shrieks of women, the wailing of infants, and the shouting of men; some were calling their parents, others their children or their wives, trying to recognize them by their voices. People bewailed [cried about] their own fate or that of their relatives, and there were some who prayed for death in their terror of dying. Many besought [asked for] the aid of the gods, but still more imagined there were no gods left, and that the universe was plunged into eternal darkness for evermore.
Pompeii was buried beneath the ash and forgotten until, in the 1800s, the city was rediscovered. The sudden lava flow had stopped life instantly. Dead people were covered with stone-like lava, preserved as they baked bread, slept, or tried to flee. Homes and streets were found with original murals and pillars. Although the eruption of Vesuvius was a catastrophe for the people, the remains of Pompeii give us a glimpse of life at the height of the Roman Empire.
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