Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said the robber demanded that she handover all of the cash in the register. "He askedfor the large bills first, then for the tens, thenthe fives and then the ones," Sinclair said. Afterhanding him all of the cash in the register, shesaid, she was told to lie on the ground until theman had left the store...
...between, the Cadets ran. And ran. And ran. Fourteen Army men combined for 412 total yards on the ground...
...caveat to the protesters, however. Even human rights violators have the right to free speech. Trying to obstruct that right will only make you look bad--giving him the moral high ground by default...
...taut and stirring as A Theft was, The Bellarosa Connection is even better. Bellow here stands squarely on the ground that he conquered long ago: the dislocations -- wrenching, comic or both -- of being Jewish in America. Bellow's narrator, a man in his early 70s, never reveals his own name, but he engagingly -- and a bit smugly -- displays the trappings of his success: "I force myself to remember that I was not born in a Philadelphia house with 20- foot ceilings but began life as the child of Russian Jews from New Jersey." He had earned his mansion, plus...
...ground, however, where nothing is ever simple, the power relationship varies from place to place. "It is nothing more than a normal battle for control," admits a factory party secretary in Jinan. "I don't know much about what my factory actually does, but that doesn't mean I don't want to be the boss." At Lun Feng, Deng's system works fairly well. Only after Tiananmen did the secretary actively meddle, but then just to direct that the radio be tuned to a mainland station rather than one in Hong Kong. The music the workers listen...