Word: calls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...troops popped tear-gas shells and beat up people trying to stop them from moving into the center of Beijing. An hour later, behind the Great Hall of the People, helmeted soldiers began lashing out at students, bystanders and other citizens who, as if summoned by some irresistible call to the barricades, rushed to the district by the thousands. Soldiers stripped off their belts and used them to whip people; others beat anyone in their path with truncheons, bloodying heads as they tried to pry an opening through the mob. For 5 1/2 hours the students held fast. Then...
...detainees, and claimed that opponents of the regime have been executed and buried at night. To Sandinista charges that such stories lack substantiation and that she is a tool of the government's enemies, she replies, "If it weren't for La Prensa and the Chamorros, those boys who call themselves our comandantes would still be hiding in the mountains...
While there is no doubt that my friends and activities and classes were the most important influences I had here, I cannot credit Harvard with providing them. The best way I can describe my relationship with the governing forces of this University is to call it adversarial. The experiences I gained the most from, and often those which brought my friends and me closer, were fighting things we felt were wrong about the way the University was run, from the administration's policy towards South Africa to its handling of student protests...
...basically building a center will entail elimination of student offices there, they have no right to call it a student center," says Camp. "Everything the SCSC and the Undergraduate Council have determined a student center to be has centered on student offices. It doesn't sound like this will be any revolution or renaissance in student extracurricular life...
...controversial people who need to be silenced as much as possible," he says. And while many Egyptians were sympathetic to his cause, Tarazi says he also encountered prejudice similar to Western anti-Semitism from cab drivers and restaurant managers. In a dispute over a fare, one driver, meaning to call Tarazi greedy, said, "don't be such a Palestinian...