Word: movement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movement's younger radicals gained greater control, such actions grew more common, often pitting the Maoist urban students againstpeasants, who remained unswayed by assertions oflocal officials' wrongdoings, he said...
When the conflict escalated, Mao ordered thearmy to restore control, effectively ending theRed Guard's revolutionary effort in 1969, Xueliangsaid. By the movement's end, he said he hadattended four massive demonstrations during whichhe witnessed 20 murders...
Harvard Co-Captain Katie McAnaney said the bumpy field made it difficult to control the ball because of sporadic changes in the ball's movement...
...knobby, swampy world that roils below the level of such Olympian meditations, Giamatti is going to face some real problems, and pretty soon. For one thing, two arbitrators have now ruled that the club owners -- Bart's bosses -- conspired to restrict the movement of players who had become free agents after the 1985 and 1986 seasons. In lay terms, eligible players were allowed to offer their services to the highest bidder, except that few bids were forthcoming save from the clubs for which they were already playing. These judgments could figure explosively when the contract between the clubs...
...Conference on Judaism in Rural New England. "It was easy to reject. A lot of people walked away from that." Many college-age Jews in the late '60s and '70s left the cities for the arresting landscapes of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont in the back-to-the-land movement -- a diaspora from the Diaspora, says Eno. After the novelty of clean air wore off, this Jewish Big Chill contingent confronted the harsh realities of isolated rural life, compounded by the gnawing issue of their lapsed Jewishness. "We're just at the stage of finding out what works," says Rick...