Word: crushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...given pink wristbands and fed four times a day. Those children who were just a little further from death were given red bands and taken to a second shed to be fed twice a day. The doors to both sheds had to be guarded at all times against the crush of hungry people desperate to gain entry...
...travel, quickly sensed her anxiety and took it upon himself to entertain her. He talked of the handicapped whom he had just been visiting; she discussed Sri Lanka's problems with drugs. When she spoke of the perfumed forests of her island country, he invited her to crush in her fingers a Martha Washington geranium on the table and smell the perfume it left behind. He went on, fascinating us all, with stories of his Hollywood days. He spoke of how he did not like the heaving and panting sex in the new movies-too explicit. He preferred...
...likely to turn a deal ear Even General Toreros, one of the region's more responsible leaders of late, had trouble following the counsel proffered by Castro It the negotiations for the return of the Canal failed, he promised, there would be notes. "I have only the alternative of crushing them of leading them," he told author Graham Greene "I will not crush them...
...most of the spillover for two weeks at the Sheraton Boston. Eventually more conventional quarters were scrounged up, and B.U. swallowed a $200,000 tab. The University of California, Santa Cruz, counted some 200 freshmen above the normal entering class of 1,340. The school handled the crush in part with a freshly bulldozed trailer park, where some 30 students are currently making do with their mobile digs. The rest were shoehorned in everywhere from the gym, where ten to 20 students checked in every night in the first few weeks for an issue of bedding, to converted dormitory lounges...
Like their big brothers in Washington, the Harvard administration doesn't care at all about "free speech." They try to crush students who mobilize against the architects of an anticommunist bloodbath in Central America because when they look at EI Salvador and Nicaragua, they see the possibility of the Russian Revolution happening all over again. They see the overthrow of capitalism, the ripping away of their markets, their profits, an end to the despotic rule of the landlords, bosses, military, and the specter of workers and peasants taking power--as was done in 1917 in Russia under the leadership...