Word: emotionalize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Clad in a simple khaki uniform without insignia, China's Commander in Chief and President rose to his feet from a sofa in the corner of the room. Slowly, without show of emotion, he made the announcement that all had expected: he would leave Nanking and go to his...
It was the first time in American history that a President had resigned his office. The precedent was melancholy, but it was hardly traumatic. All of the damage had been done before in the seemingly interminable spectacle of high officials marched through courtrooms, in the recitation of burglaries, crooked campaign...
Wherein, then, lay the triumph of the march? Civil rights leaders themselves had a hard time putting it into words. "We subpoenaed the conscience of the nation," said Martin Luther King Jr. The march was informal, often formless-yet it somehow had great dignity. It had little of the sustained...
The latest round of fighting started in early September, when the Israeli army abruptly withdrew its forces to the southern banks of the Awali River, some 17 miles south of Beirut. As the Israelis pulled out of the Chouf Mountains, their positions were quickly occupied and fought over by the...
Philippine leftists were equally cautious. Some agreed with the conventional wisdom that the death of Aquino meant the death of the political center. Others wondered whether Aquino's martyrdom had not galvanized a hitherto silent majority of moderates. In any event, no one was rushing to take advantage of...