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Word: candlelight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tsongas, whose speech preceded a candlelight vigil, said the United States' continued friendly trade relations with China diminishes any hope of forcing Chinese leaders to alter their incessant mistreatment of Chinese citizens...

Author: By Jonathan Samuels, | Title: Tsongas Speaks at Tienanmen Memorial | 6/4/1991 | See Source »

...experiencing now. Gasoline is rarely available, and when it is, the lines are 400 cars long. Baghdad residents have had no tap water or electricity for more than a month. Sewage systems overflowing with garbage are creating a health hazard. Surgical operations at hospitals have been conducted by candlelight without morphine. Food is still available, but prices have soared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: With His Country in Ruins, How Long Can Saddam Hang On? | 3/11/1991 | See Source »

Instead, I'll tell them, I was at the intersection of Mount Auburn and Dunster Streets, flirting with frostbite and death at the hands of some unsuspecting driver, trying frantically to reach Harvard Square before the clock struck midnight. There was a candlelight vigil for peace there, and all of the sudden, I had decided...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Sometimes You've Just Gotta Take a Stand | 1/30/1991 | See Source »

...playing host to the 1992 Summer Olympics, the smoldering controversy over the Sagrada Familia has flared anew. Last summer 200 Barcelona artists and intellectuals issued statements deriding new sculptures for the church by Catalan artist Josep Maria Subirachs as "boorish" and "kitsch." Protesters circled the church in a candlelight procession. Religious objections have also arisen: traditionalists are holding monthly prayer sessions, inveighing against the stark nudity of Subirachs' Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heresy Or Homage in Barcelona? | 1/28/1991 | See Source »

...clock struck midnight last night signalling the probable imminency of war, about 130 demonstrators gathered outside the Harvard Cooperative Society for an impromptu candlelight vigil that turned into a peace march...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, | Title: Protestors Stage March For Peace To MIT | 1/16/1991 | See Source »

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