Word: ko
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dorothy Ko, a professor at the University of California, San Diego, called footbinding "central to the experience of women" in China until the late 19th century...
Before an audience of 40, Ko said that to bind a child's foot a mother would break the toes of her six-year old daughter, bend them forward and bind them beneath the heel with a long piece of cloth...
...This [candlelight vigil] is mostly for sentimental reasons," said Bing H. Ko, who organized the ceremony. "We're all Chinese, we've all gone through hopes which have been shattered in the last year...
...step in the Right direction? Is this the Soviet Union's final acknowledgement that it was an Evil Empire after all, that Ronald Reagan's America was right all along? Has capitalism KO'd communism once...