Word: awaying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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About 2000 demonstrators split away and crossed a bridge over the Vltava river in an apparent attempt to reach the hillside presidential residence...
DEFENDERS of T and E have another argument though, one that appeals to the worst excesses of supply-side theory. You see, the entertainment industry is one of the nation's largest employers of unskilled labor. If we took away the subsidy for shrimp cocktails, think of all the poor waiters who would be out of work...
...Guinea jungle, 1942: waves of Japanese soldiers are assaulting a U.S. position. For 21 hours straight, Army Sergeant David Rubitsky blasts away at the attackers with a .30-cal. machine gun, a .45-cal. pistol, a rifle and grenades. The smoke clears. Single-handed, Rubitsky, 25, has killed or wounded 500 to 600 of the enemy. After examining the scene, company commander J.M. Stehling recommends Rubitsky for the Congressional Medal of Honor. Stehling's commander, Lieut. Colonel Herbert Smith, approves and relays the word to his superior, Colonel John W. Mott. "You mean a Jew for the Congressional Medal...
...Berliners to the top of the barrier along which in years past many an East German had been shot while trying to escape; at times the Wall almost disappeared beneath waves of humanity. They tooted trumpets and danced on the top. They brought out hammers and chisels and whacked away at the hated symbol of imprisonment, knocking loose chunks of concrete and waving them triumphantly before television cameras. They spilled out into the streets of West Berlin for a champagne-spraying, horn-honking bash that continued well past dawn, into the following day and then another dawn. As the daily...
...People who've never gotten involved, who've never picked up a sign, are getting involved," says Hillis. "For the first time, students feel like their rights are being taken away...