Word: formely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...little effect, and later in the day Reagan got a lesson in U.S. and Soviet cultural differences. When he and Nancy went for an unscheduled walk around the Arbat, a quaint Moscow shopping mall, the friendly but thrusting crowds alarmed the KGB. Guards appeared out of nowhere to form a flying wedge around the Reagans and roughed up everyone from journalists to children. "It's still a police state," the President was heard to mutter. That night Reagan was expected to visit the Moscow apartment of Yuri and Tanya Zieman, refuseniks who have been denied permission to emigrate. He desisted...
...world and its gods: the earth spirit Gaia, daughter of Chaos and mother of the Titans; Ouranos, god of the skies; their son Okeanos and his wife Tethys, parents of the sea and river gods. Unlike their Olympian descendants, these were too archaic to have acquired a fixed form in classical art. There was no thousand-year lineage of marble prototypes for their shape. They could be big and indistinct. And the conjunction of monumental size with muffled form entranced Tucker. The resulting pieces look ineloquent, truncated, more available -- at first -- to touch than to sight...
Kent Lucas spent the first three years of his collegiate football career struggling to overcome obstacles on the football field, obstacles usually in the form of 220-lb. defensive linemen...
...President of Radcliffe is a leadership position, what needs to emerge is leadership towards what it is," said Menzel Professor of Astrophysics David Layzer, who is the faculty representative on the Board of Trustees. He said the Board is now in the process of "trying to form a clearer idea of what Radcliffe's future should be." By this winter the trustees are expected to match that image of the future Radcliffe with one of the candidates...
...effort to unify contemporary student activists took the form of a national student conference at Rutgers University last February, when more than 700 student representatives gathered in hopes of creating a national coalition...