Word: bound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chinese-style, that took hold of Beijing last week began as a movement almost exclusively of students. But in one of those extraordinarily rare and historic occasions -- it was Karl Marx who gave such moments the classic definition "revolutionary praxis" -- a kind of instant solidarity appeared last Wednesday. It bound together the disparate groups -- students, workers, professionals, academics -- whose union China's leaders had long feared...
...sworn officer of the Commonwealth," Kotowski says. As with all officers in the state, Kotowski says, he is bound by oath to investigate any crime he comes across, whether it is on Harvard territory...
EVERYBODY'S BABY: THE RESCUE OF JESSICA MCCLURE (ABC, May 21, 9 p.m. EDT). Her Texas neighbors quarreled over the TV rights, but the story of 18-month-old Jessica's ordeal in a well was bound to reach the screen, come hell or high water. Beau Bridges and Patty Duke co-star in the docudrama...
Take that title literally. Under pressure to come up with an advertising campaign for a new pimple cream, hard-charging Dennis Bagley (Richard E. Grant) develops a nasty little boil on his neck. Ah, yes, a psychosomatic symptom, bound to happen to anyone with a conscience who is trying to sell patent medicine. The viewer settles back comfortably, prepared for some nice English silliness about a chap trying to muddle through a trying situation...
...harshest blasts came from Vladimir Melnikov, the party boss from the Komi region, in the northeastern part of the Russian Republic. He charged that today's problems could not simply be attributed to past leaders. "We are duty bound to admit that many mistakes and miscalculations have been made in the years of perestroika too." In fact, he wondered if the real truth were being kept from Gorbachev by aides who were "clearly guarding the General Secretary from the severity of the situation...