Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seemed. Next day police in Wroclaw attempted to serve a summons on another Solidarity adviser, Adam Michnik, a co-founder of KOR. Michnik, 38, refused to accept the document, which ordered him to appear at the state prosecutor's office in Warsaw in three days. In a move that heralded a possible direct worker-government confrontation, Solidarity's Wroclaw branch took Michnik under its own protection and provided him with a 30-man "workers' guard...
...explored. Most of the dead were poor and illiterate. But every single one of them had dreamed dreams, seen visions and had amazing experiences, even the babes in arms (perhaps especially the babes in arms)... If a Sigmund Freud had been listening and taking notes from the time of Adam, he would still not fully have explored even a single group, even a single person...
NONFICTION: American Dreams, Studs Terkel -Faces in My Time, Anthony Powell -Gjon Mili: Photographs & Recollections -The Hour of Our Death, Philippe Aries -Paper Money, Adam Smith -The Terrible Secret, Walter Laqueur -Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan
...good news came from Darlene Beckford, who won the 800-meter race at the AIAW championships in Pocatello, Idaho, Saturday, establishing herself as the top female collegiate half-miler in the country and becoming the first-ever Ivy League All-American in women's track. Meanwhile, in Detroit, Adam Dixon, fresh from a 1500-meter victory at the IC4As the previous weekend, supplied the bad news in placing an anti-climactic fifth at the NCAA Indoor Championships...
Harvard's Adam Dixon finished second in his qualifying heat in the mile yesterday at the NCAA indoor track championships in Detroit, with a time of 4:06.6, to send him into today's seven-man final...