Word: headful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard Police Chief Paul E. Johnson said the student was "walking with his head down when the attack occurred," and could not identify his assailants...
Maintenance workers hoped to head off more serious problems. "The [heating system] is not working properly," said Nugent. "If it is not fixed and it breaks down altogether, Leverett House resident could be without heat for quite a few days...
...schools hit by bloodshed, the effects linger long after the police have done their job. In Stockton, Calif. a playground shooting last January left five pupils dead. Fred Busher, the head of the school district's psychology staff, says students "realize now that school is not the safe place it used to be and that something terrible can happen at any instant." The youngsters, he adds, are "dealing with things that we hoped they'd never have to face, or at least not until they were adults." He concedes that healing "will take months, even years...
Ishihara, an outspoken intellectual, first rose to national prominence in 1955, when he published a popular anti-Establishment novel, Season of the Sun. Elected to the Japanese Diet in 1968, he has since served as Transport Minister and head of Japan's environmental agency. Earlier this year, he voiced his strongly nationalistic views in a 160-page volume called The Japan That Can Say No. The book has gained considerable attention in his own country and caused some dismay in Washington, where it is now circulating in an unauthorized bootleg translation...
...leaped, some into fire nets, others to the pavement; more than a few died in the fall. After the regime bricked up the windows, the resourceful tunneled beneath the 20-ft. "death strip" and its mines and gun emplacements. The most daring efforts came from Wall jumpers, who confronted head on the "antifascist protective barrier," as the jargon of totalitarianism described the Wall. In their jagged sprints, dodging searchlight beams and bullets, they created a theater of longing where the value of freedom -- and the maleficence of its denial -- found an extraordinary visual expression...