Word: lefting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fortunately, Harvard did not celebrate early, because MIT kept the pressure on the Crimson goal. With 10 seconds remaining, an MIT shot glanced wide off the left post, and Harvard finally had its third win over MIT this season...
...Bruins tied the score with a penalty kick off a questionable barging call with 20 minutes left in the game, but Harvard maintained its attack, keeping the ball in the Brown end for most of the remainder of the game. With 10 minutes left in the game Liles converted a penalty kick for the winning margin...
Andreeva's challenge first came in a letter to the conservative daily Sovetskaya Rossiya, attacking "left-wing intellectual socialism," a reference to the flirtation with democracy and glasnost practiced by such journals as Ogonyok and Moscow News. The current debate, she wrote, focused on "whether or not to recognize the leading role of the party and the working class in socialist construction and in perestroika." The intelligentsia, she claimed, "almost as a force is hostile to socialism...
...face on a tombstone: all part of the aftermath of a war the Soviets started in 1979 and abandoned last February, when the last of Moscow's troops rolled out of Afghanistan. The Kremlin's misadventure not only cost the lives of some 15,000 Soviet soldiers and left 35,000 injured but also marked the first time the U.S.S.R. had ever been defeated in war. As illustrated by these photographs, mostly taken at a military hospital outside Moscow, the agony of Afghanistan goes on, especially for the luckless wounded, wearing their bandages like withered garlands of battle...
When the opposition had left, party ideologist Kuznetsov asked John a question: "Tell me, what would happen if you spent the day working for your own magazine and went to work for your competitor in the evening? What would your bosses think of that...