Word: first
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first time in decades, major protests involving tens of thousands of citizens also broke out in other cities, state-run Czechoslovak television said...
...wondered--and we're still wondering--what sort of experience it must be for East Berliners to come to the capitalist West for the first time. What are they feeling over there? The most interesting strain of the media's commentary on their experiences has been the wonder East Berliners have felt upon trying out bourgeois life for the first time--upon realizing, for instance, that there could be a hundred different kinds of sausage, all in the same store, each truly distinct from the rest...
THIS realization first struck me when I told my sister, who's still in high school in Kentucky, that I was going to New Haven for the Harvard-Yale game. Kentucky is a state that's big on sports, but the Harvard-Yale game?! She looked at me as if I'd lost my bearings, as if I'd suddenly announced that I'd voted for George Bush...
...meeting of the City Council last night, members voted to purchase the Lee B. Macht Community Health Center's building, which Cambridge currently leases. City Manager Robert W. Healy said the move, although expensive at first, would help reduce Cambridge Hospital's $6.8 million deficit...
Mile-long lines of patient first-time voters snaked toward polling booths under a broiling sun last week as Namibia held United Nations-supervised elections that will lead the territory to independence after 74 years of South African control. So great was the enthusiasm that more than 90% of the country's 701,000 eligible voters cast ballots...