Word: displays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rulers to one: East Germany's Walter Ulbricht, who, understandably, had tried to dissuade the Czechoslovak leaders from overthrowing his ideological comrade. The Russians did not seem noticeably bereaved at the loss; Brezhnev immediately fired off a congratulatory telegram to Dubček. Nor did the Czechoslovak public display any particular grief. In their 20th year under Communist rule and 50th year as a nation, most Czechoslovaks hoped that the new changes would help them win more freedom at home and new friends abroad...
...smouldering heart, the seamless brow" of the youthful Day-Lewis began a slow, often painful search for order-a quest that some critics fear may have put his "less Dionysiac" verse at the Establishment's doorstep. Yet the best of his lyrical and narrative poems display a trim, controlled power...
...grounds that the money should be used instead for humanitarian projects such as low-cost housing for the poor. The protesters cited Pope Paul's encyclical Populorum Progressio and the Vatican Council's Constitution on the Church in the Modern World in arguing against any ostentatious display of churchly wealth so long as men are starving. McGucken retorted that his archdiocese already spends $4,000,000 a year in combating poverty-and that a cathedral was a necessary means of inspiring men to prayer...
...awesome display of power, Harvard's varsity squash team jolted M.I.T., 9-0, yesterday afternoon in Hemenway...
Harvard's other players made short work of their matches. Anil Nayar, number one, put on a display of three-wall drop shots and deep power drives that dizzied his opponent...