Word: eves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Christmas Eve I looked through Christmas cards, called friends, watched a basketball game and visited family. Upon reading "The Darkness Descends" [Dec. 28], I tried to imagine how different my day would have been in Poland. The comparison is incomprehensible...
Ninety per cent of the Ferdinand's staff decided to unionize after the fired Ha'penny workers held an "informational picket line" in front of Ferdinand's on New Year's Eve...
...were demonstrating their opposition to martial law by placing lighted candles in their windows, the President declared he would light a candle in a White House window "as a small but certain beacon of our solidarity with the Polish people." He asked Americans "to do the same, on Christmas Eve, as a personal statement of your commitment to the steps we are taking to support the brave people of Poland in their time of troubles." In Vatican City, Pope John Paul II lit a candle in the window of his study. Around the world, millions of candles flickered...
...second week of martial law ended in Poland, the Jaruzelski government appeared to be in fairly firm control in much of the country. In a Christmas Eve address, Jaruzelski claimed that "the process of disintegration of the state has been halted, and an end has been put to anarchy." The government eased its ban on travel within Poland, restored telephone service in some provinces and quietly removed the armored personnel carriers from Warsaw's Victory Square. It also reduced the length of the curfew in the capital and in some other cities, thereby permitting people to attend midnight Mass...
...should not interfere with the distribution of surplus commodities. In most states the cheese came too late for a Christmas present, although the first giveaways, in California, Nevada and Texas, were made last Wednesday. More cheese should be on the tables of the poor for New Year's Eve...