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Word: greates (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Premier Li and pro-democracy student leaders held a tense meeting in the Great Hall of the People yesterday that ended in failure after student activist Wu'er Kaixi collapsed as he shouted at the premier...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: One Million Chinese Demand Deng Resign | 5/19/1989 | See Source »

...scene in the Xinjiang Room of the Great Hall was unprecedented in Communist China with Wu'er, a 21-year-old education major at Beijing Normal University wearing hospital pajamas and running shoes, shouting down the premier...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: One Million Chinese Demand Deng Resign | 5/19/1989 | See Source »

John L. Lewis, the late great boss of the United Mine Workers, would rub his shaggy eyebrows in disbelief if he could see a coal miners' strike nowadays. ( No goons with clubs. No beatings. No gunfire (except for an occasional harmless lapse). Instead, in a remote corner of southwestern Virginia, 1,400 striking miners -- and even their wives and kids -- were all decked out in jungle fatigues. A public relations firm was pumping out pamphlets excoriating the bosses. Strike leaders with beepers, walkie-talkies and cellular telephones were blasting orders, tuning in scanners to chart the movements of the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John L., You'd Be Amazed | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

...Oracle Temple of Siwa Oasis. The walls of this 4th century B.C. temple, where Alexander the Great was supposedly crowned King of Egypt, have developed cracks and are in danger of falling. Egyptian officials hope to save the monument by moving it piece by piece from its present site on shifting sand in the Western Desert to firmer ground. The big question is where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Perilous Times for the Pyramids | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

Reading this slight, elegant book is a bit like having a guided tour through an album of family snapshots. There, notes your cicerone, is Great-Great-Uncle George, who built that incredible castle in North Carolina. Here is Great-Aunt Adele, blithe and beautiful, seated next to her sad cousin Consuelo -- she had to marry a duke, you know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rich And Infamous | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

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