Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Allen sees an increase in the conservatism of the former Kremlin on the Charles. "Upsettingly, I stood up in Adams House to make an announcement about the Lift the Ban rally and had people hissing," she says...
Move away from the past; lift the ban, and step into the future--a future in which all Americans, gay or straight, are treated equally...
...that those who feel the pain of gays and lesbians at Harvard [should use the speech] as a time not to take issue with Powell, but as a time to say something loving and supportive about gays and lesbians?" asked Dion, who was wearing a pink lapel button reading "Lift...
...fight Serb aggression. Then he agreed to use U.S. ground troops to enforce the Vance-Owen peace plan, which he and Christopher had previously denounced as a reward to the Serbs. Then, after weeks of public hand-wringing over Serb gains and promises to get tough, he settled on "lift and strike": lifting the arms embargo on the Bosnian government that keeps it outgunned 10 to 1 by Serb and Croat forces, and bombing Serbian artillery that is pounding Muslim towns filled with refugees. But he did nothing to sell this plan to the Congress or the public...
Then in late 1990, Les, at 79, suffered an "incident" that involved a small stroke. He returned to Clawson after 10 days in the hospital, but more and more often there would be tearful phone calls for aid: Les had dropped Sue and couldn't lift her again. She became incontinent and needed a catheter. Nurses had to be hired to bathe her, and still she developed cellulitis, which attacked her skin. Joanne would smell Sue before she saw her. "It's like Sue was trapped inside this rotting body," she remembers. "All I could think...