Word: greened
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yonsei University in Seoul, the country's capital and largest city, a column of more than 2,000 students waved red, white and green flags painted with revolutionary slogans as they sang We Shall Overcome in Korean. A ceremony marking the university's 102nd anniversary exploded into a riot as some 1,000 students vented their rage over a police raid earlier in the day that resulted in the arrest of 36 hunger strikers. At the municipal stadium a victory march by 3,500 students from Kyung Hee University to celebrate their baseball team's championship turned into a political...
...sense of herself. Uncluttered by flirtation, the contrast between the student's will to win and her teacher's self-destructive need to fail emerges sharply, and the play becomes a discerning essay on how much of anyone's fate is self-imposed. Like Emlyn Williams' The Corn Is Green, to which it owes its basic theme, this Rita convincingly argues that the discovery of learning is far more seductive, even to the young, than the exploration of mere...
Most people regard a census as a minor nuisance. But in West Germany a national census scheduled to be completed on May 25 has become a cause for protest. The pro-environment Green Party, which won 8.3% of the vote in this winter's parliamentary elections, is leading a census-boycott movement under the slogan ONLY SHEEP ARE COUNTED...
...former All-Ivy selection in lacrosse, Anderson captained the Big Green during his senior year at Dartmouth...
Pausing at the wreckage of an An-26, General Ghulam Farouq, Khost's Afghan military commander, pointed out that the "passenger plane" was downed three months ago by a U.S.-made Stinger ground-to-air missile. Though the twisted, charred remains retained a coat of green-gray camouflage paint and prominent military markings, the official line was that the craft was a civilian flight ferrying women and children to Kabul for medical treatment. In all, Afghan officials said, 36 civilians died in the attack. The rebels claim the flight carried military personnel and supplies...