Word: millennia
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...have waged arduous struggles to get rid of the sufferings under semi-colonial and semi-feudal rule. Dr. Sun Yat-sen, China's forerunner of the democratic revolution, was the first to put forward the slogan of "rejuvenation of China." He led the Revolution of 1911 to remove the millennia-old autocratic monarchy in China. Under the guidance of Mao Zedong Thought, the Chinese Communist Party led the Chinese people in achieving national independence and people's liberation and in building China into a socialist country with initial prosperity. Today, guided by Deng Xiaoping theory, the Chinese people are firmly...
...approach she would favor. At worst, Jews would teach their children that only other Jews are worthy of their love, respect, and admiration--that people who are different are unacceptable and must be excluded. Hepps's views could easily incite the kind of ignorant bigotry Jews have faced for millennia...
...regular millennium sections; special issues are in the works, as are numerous book and TV specials--if you loved the pack hunt for meaning in the 25th anniversary of Woodstock or the death of Jackie O., you'll love 2000. Merchandisers are horning in too: La-Z-Boy offers Millennia office chairs (the "tie-in," a La-Z-Boy executive offers, is that the chairs have "a very contemporary look"), while Elizabeth Arden has its Millenium skin-care products. A brochure explains the connection to exfoliation: "In the present and future of every skin, there is a turning point--where...
...night, I repeated this ritual, this time scanning the heavens for Hale-Bopp. Dining halls had been abuzz with tales of sightings for days, and Harvard's armchair astronomers regaled whoever would listen with hyperbole and an occasional fact. Not wanting to miss out on the chance of four millennia, I turned my eyes skyward yet again. The same pea-sized white blob hung in the sky, and it was only after I cleaned my eyeglasses that I was convinced it was indeed a comet and not a piece of lint from the laundry room--piece of lint whose death...
Herzog also said that, through the millennia that Jerusalem has been considered by Jews to be their capital, no other nation has regarded it with the same importance...