Word: curtained
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...other side of the Iron Curtain, today a gash of electrified fences and minefields, the challenge that began on V-E day has had very different dimensions. For the nations of Eastern Europe, the prospect of a new, democratic postwar era vanished with Stalin's unkept pledge to hold free elections in the "liberated" territories. By 1949, Communist regimes had consolidated power by force or subterfuge in eight countries. During the past 40 years, only two nations have been able to escape the Soviet orbit: Yugoslavia in 1948 and Albania...
...propose. Facing a bright battery of TV lights at a Manhattan press conference, the self-made cable king announced last week that he will try to take over CBS, the country's top-rated TV network. Following more than a month of rumors, Turner had finally raised the curtain on what could become one of the most dramatic takeover dramas...
...might have slowed him down a little, sure—he had earned 17 points in 15 games before he sustained the injury, versus just 12 points in the 19 contests after it—but as the curtain fell on the Crimson season last night, Cavanagh still held the lead, or at least a share of it, in every offensive category...
...might have slowed him down a little, sure—he had earned 17 points in 15 games before he sustained the injury, versus just 12 points in the 19 contests after it—but as the curtain fell on the Crimson season last night, Cavanagh still held the lead, or at least a share of it, in every offensive category...
...Paul II made the renunciation of coercive force the political center of his pontificate. His stout opposition to Soviet communism was built around nonviolence, and his dramatic support of the Polish resistance movement was key to its firm commitment to nonviolence too. Because the democratic opposition behind the Iron Curtain remained peaceful, Mikhail Gorbachev, in the climactic months of 1989, was able to respond to it peacefully. John Paul II is often credited with a crucial role in the fall of communism, but his role, against the expectations of all "realists," was defined by its nonviolence. War never again...