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beak
Stiff, projecting oral structure of birds and turtles (both of which lack teeth) and certain other animals (e.g., cephalopods and some insects, fishes, and mammals). The term bill is preferred for the beak of a bird, composed of upper and lower jaws covered by a horny sheath of skin, with the nostrils on top, usually at the base. The shapes and sizes of bills are adapted for obtaining food, preening, building nests, and other functions; they range from the long, slim bill of nectar-sipping hummingbirds to the sturdy, curved, nut-cracking bill of parrots.


bugaku
Repertoire of stylized dances of the Japanese imperial court, derived from dance forms imported mainly from China and Korea. The dances are divided into two basic forms: "dances of the left" (saho no mai), accompanied by music derived from China, with dancers wearing red costumes; and "dances of the right" (uho samai no mai), accompanied by music introduced from Korea, with dancers wearing costumes of blue or green. The dancers wear elaborate masks of painted wood to portray fictional characters.


Dukakis
U.S. politician. Born in Brookline, Mass., he attended law school at Harvard, served in the Massachusetts state legislature (1963-71), and was elected governor for three terms (1975-79, 1983-91), during which he coped with a budgetary crisis, restoring the state's fiscal health and strengthening its economic base. As the Democratic presidential nominee in 1988, he lost to G. Bush. He retired from politics in 1991 to teach.


Husak
Leader of Czechoslovakia (1969-89). He helped direct the antifascist Slovak national uprising of 1944, and after the war he began a career as a government official and Communist Party functionary. He became a deputy premier of Czechoslovakia under A. Dubcek. When Dubcek was deposed by Soviet forces, Husak was installed as first secretary of the Communist Party (1969). He reversed Dubcek's reforms and purged the party of its liberal members. He became president in 1975. When Communist rule collapsed in 1989, he resigned as president.


kulak
(Russian: "fist") Wealthy or prosperous landed peasant in Russia. Before the Russian Revolution of 1917, kulaks were major figures in peasant villages, often lending money and playing central roles in social and administrative affairs. In the War Communism period (1918-21), the Soviet government undermined the kulaks' position by organizing poor peasants to administer the villages and requisition grain from richer peasants. The kulaks regained their position under the New Economic Policy, but in 1929 the government began a drive for rapid collectivization of agriculture and "liquidation of the kulaks as a class" (dekulakization). By 1934 most kulaks had been deported to remote regions or arrested and their land and property confiscated.


Lusaka
City (pop., 1990: 982,000), capital of Zambia. In the 1890s the area ...

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