Word: belonged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thenceforth be known as National Redemption Day. At week's end he imposed martial law. Several times a day he roared out of the executive mansion in his Mercedes limousine to visit schools, markets and other gathering places. Wherever he went, thousands of chanting women-who, like Doe, belong to Liberia's long oppressed country people -romped and shouted in the streets. At his first foreign press conference last week, Doe strode into a ballroom at the executive mansion wearing a wide-brimmed army ranger hat, freshly pressed fatigues and combat boots. He carried a ceremonial sword under...
...seats were given to Nkomo men. Party rivalries are further exacerbated by the traditional tribal enmity between Nkomo's Ndebele and Mugabe's Shona supporters. Says Willie Musarurwa, Nkomo's longtime press spokesman: "What the Prime Minister must do is make our people feel that they belong. People who have played a very strong role are being left out. The most important thing is unity...
...Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of its newest exhibit, "Treasures from the Bronze Age of China," which will later go to Chicago, Fort Worth, Los Angeles and Boston. "Age" is the key word, since the terra cotta figures are obviously not bronze; chronologically, though, they do belong to the period, albeit its very end. The public will be grateful that the dramatic figures were included-even if they were not absolutely needed. For the show has bronzes enough to dazzle anyone. In fact, it is a far more impressive and selective exhibit than the one the People...
...argues, undermine the American ideal they claim to uphold. Harrington understands that most Americans, even those hurt by corporate strategies (such as attacking inflation with high unemployment), subscribe to a national credo of individual opportunity and economic mobility. These national ideals can't be realized when all the opportunities belong to Exxon. Harrington's closely argued book debunks these myths and proposes programs to make his version of the American dream--democratized ownership and widely diffused wealth and political power--come true...
...victor belong the spoils. That old political adage may have been laid to rest last week when the Supreme Court ruled that government employees cannot be routinely fired by a new administration simply because of their political affiliation. Critics, including two of the three dissenting Justices, quickly claimed that by striking a blow against the traditional patronage system, the decision could injure the already ailing political parties...