Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...abduction and killing of Popieluszko last October were two subordinates in the security forces, Leszek Pekala and Waldemar Chmielewski. Pekala, who drove the kidnap car, received 15 years, and Chmielewski, whose stuttering, tear-filled testimony gave the trial some of its most dramatic moments, got 14 years. Adam Pietruszka, the former colonel who flatly denied Piotrowski's accusations that he had encouraged the killing, received a 25-year jail term...
...thanks to an 0-14 weekend at yale and Brown Cornell (333) leads the league in converting man up situations. Harvard (327) is second Five Harvard players are in the top 10 in Ivy League scoring. Fusco is second in ECAC scoring with 38 points, Six behind RPI's Adam Oates, who has 44 in one more game... Yale has I wins one less than the school's record of 18 set in 1923-24... I am McDonald was just recently named Milwaukee Athlete of the year...
...captain be put to death by hanging. It was the first time that any Communist state had publicly called for the execution of one of its secret policemen for a crime committed ostensibly in the line of duty. The courtroom was still. Piotrowski raised his eyes, his Adam's apple working convulsively...
...Piotrowski's partners, Co-Defendants Waldemar Chmielewski and Leszek Pekala, receive a sentence of 25 years, the maximum term under Polish law. The men, he said, were following the orders of their superior. The prosecutor also recommended a sentence of 25 years for the fourth defendant, ex-Colonel Adam Pietruszka, who took no physical part in the crime but is accused of having encouraged Piotrowski in its commission. The prosecutor's recommendations are expected to be approved by Presiding Judge Artur Kujawa and his four co-jurists this week...
...learned "to worship/ the sun again./ To affirm the adventures/ of hair." As a poet and feminist, she affirms the value of the self without manufactured beauty: "For we are all/ splendid/ descendants/ of Wilderness,/ Eden:/ needing only/ to see/ each other/ without/ commercials/ to believe./ Copied skillfully/ as Adam./ Original/ as Eve." The last two lines punctuate Walker's message to women...