Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gdansk apartment last week. Sitting alongside former Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa were other prominent activists of the banned trade union, which has called for a nationwide 15-minute strike on Feb. 28 to protest a proposed increase in food prices. Among those present: Bogdan Lis of Gdansk, Adam Michnik of Warsaw and Wladyslaw Frasyniuk of Wroclaw...
...target is the overwhelmingly popular Roman Catholic Church. Said Religious Affairs Minister Adam Lopatka: "The authorities' error was that Popieluszko was not imprisoned long ago." Henceforth, Lopatka said, any priest who "deserves it will certainly be arrested." Government Spokesman Jerzy Urban suggested that a dozen priests had made statements worthy of investigation...
Would that the opening night's performance had been worthy of both the moment and the surroundings. Instead, it was prosaically conducted by Wolf-Dieter Hauschild and, with the exception of Bass-Baritone Theo Adam's noble Hermit, provincially sung by an all East European cast. The Freischutz production further suffered from Joachim Herz's relentlessly proletarian staging. The first great German romantic opera and a major influence on Wagner, Freischutz is the story of a forester, Max, who almost falls into the devil's clutches trying to regain his lost marksmanship and win the hand of his beloved Agathe...
Sophomore Adam Keller then came up to serve, and after acing the Bulldogs at 11-0, scored four more points to shut them...
...player who's seeing a lot more court time is Adam Keller. Keller has replaced middle-hitter Young Kim, suspended by Coach Ishan Gurdal for missing last Tuesday's match at Dartmouth...