Word: manly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...massacre, many citizens were so incensed that the P.L.A. was being used against the people that they ambushed stray groups of soldiers with fire bombs, bricks, clubs, even bare hands. Later, outgunned and powerless, the resistance turned to words. In the shadow of the Beijing Hotel, a young man spotted a military helicopter hovering over Tiananmen and wrathfully wished destruction on it. "Fall down!" he cried. "Fall down!" Across the square, a worker stared angrily at a group of soldiers and muttered, "So many died, but not in vain. It's not over yet, just you wait...
...days leading up to the crisis, he reportedly abstained from a crucial vote when the party was paralyzed over how to act on the student protests. That demonstration of neutrality may have made him acceptable as a compromise leader to all sides. "He is a very shrewd man," says Ruan. "He was elevated to the Politburo by Hu Yaobang. But when Hu was ousted, Qiao acted against his former mentor and sided with Deng...
...that Time's top executives would fight to repel the intruder. In a three-page "Dear Mr. Davis" letter, Munro chastised the Paramount chairman for breaking his spoken agreement to leave Time alone: "On a personal level, I'm disappointed that I can't rely on you as a man of your word. Live and learn." Munro said the Paramount offer consisted of "smoke and mirrors," since it was subject to several conditions that included Paramount's ability to obtain financing and regulatory approval, a process almost certain to take longer than the Time-Warner proposition had. Such conditions, Munro...
...man against an army. The power of the people versus the power of the gun. There he stood, implausibly resolute in his thin white shirt, an unknown Chinese man facing down a lumbering column of tanks. For a moment that will be long remembered, the lone man defined the struggle of China's citizens. "Why are you here?" he shouted at the silent steel hulk. "You have done nothing but create misery. My city is in chaos because...
...brief encounter between the man and the tank captured an epochal event in the lives of 1.1 billion Chinese: the state clanking with menace, swiveling right and left with uncertainty, is halted in its tracks because the people got in its way, and because it got in theirs...