Word: letting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What had gone wrong? One theory favored by Sinologists was that Deng Xiaoping had concluded that his people had let off enough steam, and that further permissiveness by party leaders was an invitation to anarchy. In fact, China's press for the past few weeks has been filled with strange stories about youthful rebellion. In Shanghai, thousands of unemployed youths who had illegally returned from enforced stints in the countryside rioted near a city employment office in protest against the lack of jobs. According to some wall posters, unemployment had forced girls into prostitution and turned men to become...
Robinson held on to the tennis balls for several minutes in silent disagreement with the call before giving them back to Pompan. He knew he could only prevent Pompan from winning by refusing to let him finish the match...
...Jets and the Sharksbattling for Eastern League turf in high stirrups. The war clubs came out and the ball never rested. The war clubs let loose and the Soldiers Field basepaths never settled. And when time and the fates finally called a halt to this nine-inning diamond joust, 28 hits had fallen, 20 runs had scored, and Harvard had beaten Penn yesterday, 11-9, with a final inning choreographed by Jerome Robbins and written by Horatio Alger...
...have read every ballot in Mather House, and many of them have "Who cares? written by the question on parties," Bernstein said. "Everyone should be content to let this particular fight be fought at election time," he added...
...real stars of the game for the Crimson, however, were its unsavory (to opponents, anyway) crew of underclassmen defensemen--Scott Pink, Frank Prezioso, and Haywood Miller. The Ephmen attack consistently had difficulty getting the ball into the box, let alone moving it toward the cage. "Our defensive pressure was outstanding," Crimson coach and one-time national scoring champion (at Brown) Bob Scalise noted afterwards...