Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bread and freedom" riots of 1956, 194 protesters were reportedly jailed after marching through the streets bearing leaflets proclaiming DEATH TO THE REDS. In a Warsaw streetcar, a police sergeant was gravely wounded when an unidentified attacker shot him in the stomach and fled. In addition, a number of minor bombings were reported...
...Commerce Committee, have given it strong support. But, as in 1981, there is no shortage of opponents. In the Republican-controlled Senate, Vermont's Robert Stafford, chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, has pledged to keep the 1970 Clean Air Act as is, except for minor revisions. When the House Subcommittee on Health and the Environment opened hearings last month, Chairman Henry Waxman of California called the bill "an open invitation for a virtual halt in air-pollution control." At week's end, he announced that he would introduce his own bill to simplify and strengthen...
...itself down behind the Cornell net before the Big Red's Paul Geiger, who sends it back into the crowd special delivers. During the ensuing clean up, rink announcer Lloyd Perbnutter blares for all to hear. "The next article that is thrown on the ice will result in a minor penalty against Harvard." When Hayward returns to his station, he is bombarded again, this time by the booming chants of "Sieve...
...story is just getting started when a minor character tells Charlie, 13, the narrator: "Your father's the most obnoxious man I've ever met. He is the worst kind of pain in the neck-a know-it-all who's sometimes right." This is accurate and fair warning. Allie Fox is a ranter and raver, a Maine-born Yankee of bullying and slightly crazed ingenuity. To accompany him on a shopping trip is to be lectured on U.S. civilization and its discontents. He tells everyone who will listen that the end is near. Reports Charlie...
...trouble centered around a relatively minor and technical point of fencing rules. Zivkovic wanted the three weapons--foil, epee, and sabre--to be fenced simultaneously on three adjacent strips. Micahnik insisted that sabre bouts go first...