Word: anthemic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time, the protests have ended in bloodshed, with a total of at least 110 dead. Last week the broad-based opposition tried another approach: as part of its effort to provoke a national strike, it called on Chileans to assemble in city and town squares to sing the national anthem and then quickly disperse. Pinochet was in no mood for music. Even before the singing had begun in Santiago's main square, police equipped with submachine guns, dogs, clubs and water cannons charged the crowd of 5,000. The confrontation set off two days of brutal clashes between police...
...statue of Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino Jr., the Philippine opposition leader slain by an unknown assassin at Manila International Airport on Aug. 21, 1983, on his return from exile in the U.S. As spotlights played on the figure, the crowd broke into cheers and then into the once outlawed nationalist anthem, Ang Bayan Ko (My Country). A few demonstrators even hugged the motorcycle cops. On such notes of strength and serenity, rather than with the violence prophesied by the government, Filipinos last week marked the first anniversary of Aquino's murder in the largest protest outpouring in Manila since...
...faces of the athletes. Certainly nowhere else in sports, and maybe nowhere else at all, do the emotions show through the contests so clearly or compellingly, to the point of dominating first the action and then the results, finally becoming a theme more powerful than any one anthem or all of them combined. There must be a lot of great Communist Greco-Roman wrestlers around the Soviet Union and East Germany, but no one spoke of hollow victories in boycotted company at the moment of burly Jeff Blatnick's memorable tears. It staggered him and everyone else...
...African nations shed their colonial past. The new name was derived from two of the country's main languages. In More, spoken by some 3 million people, burkina means "ancestral home" faso means "those who are dignified" in Dioula. Sankara also redesigned the flag and commissioned a national anthem that can be performed with traditional instruments. "Our new name represents a psychological and spiritual change,"explains Minister of Environment and Tourism Basile Guisso. "It will help revolutionize the way people think and help them deal with the modern world...
...Szabo dismounted the parallel bars with relief and Retton came to the vaulting horse, her pet pony. A loud bear, Bela Karolyi, the defector who instructed Comaneci and Szabo and now teaches Retton and Julianne McNamara, quietly watched the team ceremony two days earlier and listened to his old anthem from a doorway. "I coached Szabo from the time she was five, [Lavinia] Agache from the time she was six," he said. "I'm feeling happy for Mary Lou and Julianne and the same thing for my former girls." Little Szabo looks like she would sooner fall off the balance...