Word: 80th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sunday marked the 80th annual Columbus Day celebration for residents of the North End, whose Italian-American ancestors made the day a traditional party to commemorate the European discovery of America...
People's Daily last week celebrated the 80th birthday of Deng Xiaoping, China's top leader, not with an official announcement but with one of the paper's most unusual articles in recent memory. The subject: Deng's ordeal as a political outcast during the decade of Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution. The author: "Mao Mao," the childhood nickname of one of Deng's three daughters. According to her account, three years after Deng was ousted from Deng Xiaoping Mao's inner circle in 1966 for being too critical of economic policies...
...Great Hall of the People and spent an additional 40 minutes with Deng Xiaoping, China's de facto leader, who has elevated the recovery of Hong Kong to a national mission. By the time their discussion ended, Deng, looking tanned and healthy less than a month before his 80th birthday, seemed positively merry. "If we say that it was General de Gaulle who brought an end to French colonialism," he proclaimed, "then we can also say that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has brought an end to British colonial rule...
...orthodoxy. The staunchest Maoist loyalists are within the 4.2 million-strong People's Liberation Army, whose upper ranks have become a stagnant gerontocracy. The youngest of the nine men on the Central Military Commission is 70; three of its four vice chairmen, like Chairman Deng, have passed their 80th birthday. Even the People's Daily has been moved to complain that "some of our leading cadres are like document-reading machines, speaking rather than acting and just sitting there unless they get a push from above...
...best this year when he had 35 home runs and 130 RBIs. The fact that he happens to be a composite of several different characters, for the most part Lefthanded Hitter John Lowenstein and Righthander Gary Roenicke, is a bit befuddling, but it begins to describe the 80th World Series...