Word: crushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Russians have realized they cannot crush the resistance. Now they are trying to solve the problem through other ways and means," Hekmatyrar said. "They have to withdraw and they have realized there is no other solution...
Last week State President P.W. Botha took strong action to shore up the country's quickly deteriorating network of black schools. He announced a new set of regulations designed to restore order to the schoolhouse -- and to crush rampant dissent within it. The emergency decree empowers the director general of the Department of Education and Training to set rules governing almost everything touching school life, including whether students can wear T shirts emblazoned with political slogans...
...holy passion. She reveled in his ascetic good looks, his impossible demands, his gentlemanly reticence. For Therese, God was the perfect man -- an amalgam of loving husband, righteous father, adorable son, good-time pal, indefatigable lover -- and she made herself the ultimate acolyte, surrendering to her heart's crush. Throwing over reverence for schoolgirl rapture, Therese dared to love Jesus to pieces...
...three hours before the third-class carriages pulled in. A few dipped bread into tins of stew, washing it down with drafts of Lion beer and Viceroy brandy. Most were sprawled alongside mountains of suitcases and possessions, including sewing machines, stereos, furniture, even motorcycles. Vendors picked through the crush, hawking overpriced watches and brightly colored blouses. Girlfriends, some with infants strapped on their backs, lingered by the train's windows for a few last words. "See you next month," said a young girl in a thin smock, her baby's head bobbing up and down...
President Reagan's media manipulation and its complicity have preserved his popularity. Irangate threatens to crush it. In hindsight, an interesting question is which was more important to Reagan's popularity--his leadership or the media's complicity with it? In other words, who runs America during the mass media age, President or press...