Word: beacons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hope," he mused more seriously, "that Cuba will become a beacon of socialism in Latin America. Castro offers that hope, and the Americans are helping us." He said that instead of establishing normal relations with Cuba, the U.S. was doing all it could to drive Castro to the wall by organizing a campaign against him, stirring up the Latin American countries and imposing an economic blockade on Cuba. "That's stupid," he exclaimed, "and it's a result of the howls of zealous anti-Communists in the U.S. who see red everywhere, though possibly something is only rose-colored...
Cambridge's state legislators will be carrying a lot more clout around Beacon Hill in the next few months, after newly-elected House Speaker George Keverian '53 (D-Everett) announced key leadership appointments over the weekend...
...sari, committed to her home and family, my mother first encountered a very young Indira at a local college, where she gave a speech about the role of college-educated women in the future of the country. To my mother, Indira Gandhi was and always will be a beacon of hope for the future of the Indian woman. For thousands of Indian women like my mother, she symbolized all that the Indian woman could achieve, given the limited opportunities of a social and cultural tradition that to this day requires a woman to take second place to her husband...
...other political bodies in countries does the process of legislation less resemble the Democratic process, and in few other political bodies is the term 'representative' more devoid of meaning. The sorry state of affairs on Beacon Hill is attributable to the almost monarchial power of Senate President William M. Bulger (D-Boston) and Speaker of the House Thomas W. McGee (D-Lynn), who until now have dispensed patronage and dictated legislation to sub-servient rank-and-file representatives and senators...
...Republican lot has not always been such a sorry one. Republican governors ruled the state for the decade before Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, running on a fiscal austerity, no-taxes platform, won Beacon Hill for the Democrats...