Word: action
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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About 100 whites watched from the roadside, many criticizing the protest. Police took no action...
Pollack and Captain Niki Rival won the first set but could not maintain the momentum, succumbing, 4-6, 6-1, 6-2, to Han and Kristin Green in the second round of Flight 2 doubles action...
Friday, the Crimson saw action against both the Huskies and the University of Central Connecticut. In the first match. Harvard (3-5) beat UConn in four sets, 8-15, 15-13, 16-14, 15-8. The Crimson completed the sweep with a three-set victory over Central Connecticut...
...bury" us. We suspected that real success might produce an economic giant capable of dwarfing even our ally Japan, but we rooted anyway. And of course, since Tiananmen Square, we have wondered what went so drastically wrong. How could any regime shoot unarmed citizens in its own capital, an action violative of a rule of governance so obvious that not even Machiavelli felt compelled to write it down...
...consider the previous ten years, the time of the Cultural Revolution, when everything was at its worst. Do we want to return to that? Take to the streets against those with the guns and risk all that we've gained? Who but the hotheads can honestly say such an action would be worth...