Word: aloftness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lech Walesa was back in the spotlight last week, holding aloft a bouquet of flowers and basking in the cheers of 1,500 supporters gathered near the Lenin Shipyard in the Baltic port of Gdansk. Four years ago, the outspoken electrician had scaled the shipyard gates and assumed the leadership of a strike that gave birth to Solidarity, the Communist bloc's first independent trade union. Solidarity was officially suspended in 1981, when the regime of General Wojciech Jaruzelski declared martial law and detained most of the union's leaders. But as Walesa and his fellow workers showed...
...sport has come in its public appeal could be seen by the crowds that thronged into the 12,700-capacity Pauley Pavilion on the UCLA campus for every major event. One of the dozens of NEED TICKETS signs outside the men's team finals was held aloft by a young UCLA student. Three members of the men's team are fellow UCLA Bruins and, she noted, things were different at their college meets: "I used to get in free, and there would be about 30 people in the stands at Pauley," she said. "Now tickets cost...
...every supplicant, however, has gone to Washington and come away with bundles of cash. The Government turned down Pan American World Airways in 1974 when the carrier said it needed about $10 million a month in subsidies to stay aloft. Instead, the Civil Aeronautics Board allowed Pan Am to take rescue measures, such as sharing markets with...
...Cuba's "landmark" was President Fidel Castro, who obligingly posed with the island's superheavyweight boxer, Teófilo Stevenson. Afterward, when Leifer asked Castro to autograph a picture from an earlier session, the President's arm was so sore from holding Stevenson's hand aloft in a victory salute that he could barely write. The arm was not too sore, however, to offer Leifer a light for his Cohiba Cuban cigar in the souvenir photo above...
Transpace Carriers, a two-year-old Maryland firm that plans to use NASA rockets to put satellites aloft, accused Arianespace, its European rival, of using government subsidies to submit low-cost bids for American contracts. Transpace wants the French firm to charge the same price for U.S. launches as it does for European ones. Among the jobs Arianespace has won is a $125 million award to launch five General Telephone & Electric orbiters...