Word: innermost
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...though some 250,000 troops were poised on the city's outskirts or headed for Beijing. The army, however, maintained an uneasy standoff with a reduced cadre of student protesters. The real drama took place in a walled enclave in the western hills outside Beijing, where members of the innermost circle of China's Communist Party met to resolve a bitter power struggle that had the capital aswirl with unfounded rumors and unanswered questions...
...people like Kwonjune Seung '91, the author of the East Wind article, whom I have in mind when I think about minority self-segregation. In his piece, Seung betrays his innermost thoughts: "Perhaps Hsia has never gone out on a dinner date with a white lady friend and felt the temperature drop several degrees. Then he cannot understand how liberating it can be to able to date members of the same minority group...
...agonized for weeks before acquiring a new Mercedes- Benz. The symbolism of so expensive a car bothers this man of independent means who cuts his own hair (badly) because "it's cheaper and faster." With a reporter he knows well, he can be drawn into conversation about his innermost thoughts. Still, he refuses to confess ownership of the Mercedes...
...friend, editor Solomon Volkov, a different picture emerged. This Shostakovich was a pragmatist, who learned to keep his head down after he was denounced in Pravda and saw his friends and colleagues persecuted and purged by Stalin during the Great Terror. This Shostakovich was a survivor, who saved his innermost feelings for his work. "Words are not my genre," he once said to Yevgeny Yevtushenko, whose poem Babi Yar he set in the brutal Symphony No. 13. "I never lie in music...
Suddenly he spotted something that gave him a chill. Buried near Sector 0, the disk's innermost circle, was evidence that the glitch that had swallowed six months of Joselow's professional life was not a glitch at all but a deliberate act of sabotage. There, standing out amid a stream of random letters and numbers, was the name and phone number of a Pakistani computer store and a message that read, in part: WELCOME TO THE DUNGEON . . . CONTACT US FOR VACCINATION...