Word: lets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anti-choice people want us to fight stateby state because they'll win some and we'll winsome," Shaffner said, "We can't let our energiesbe divided...
...investigating the question of why so many followed so dastardly a design. Personal accounts of the period's horrors have been written ("scar literature" it is called). But unlike the Germans, who have collectively wrestled with the Holocaust's blackest implications for 40 years, the Chinese appear content to let the past rest...
...exactly will the balance be struck? What is a controlled expression of opinion that does not threaten the party's authority? Thousands believed their criticism within bounds when Mao urged freethinking in the mid-1950s campaign known as "Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom." Then Deng, whom Mao had / once described as "a needle wrapped in cotton," orchestrated a crackdown that sent many to prison for merely following the Great Helmsman's invitation to criticize...
...impossible, after just five weeks "inside," to say what China is like. It is possible only to meet some people, sketch some scenes, let some voices tell their stories. And if, up close, childhood impressions fade, enough incongruities and paradoxes survive to concentrate the mind. Like the newspapers that urge "bitter struggle" against "bourgeois liberalism" while trumpeting the pleasures of disco dancing on the same page. Like the never ending loop of music in the lobby of a hotel in Sichuan province that alternates between a Rod Stewart oldie (Sailing) and a socialist goody (Without the Communist Party There Would...
...momentary lapse on the part of the defense," senior Co-Captain Erin O'Brien said. "We thought we had committed a foul but the referees held their whistles. We figured it would be a penalty corner, and we let up for a second...