Word: movement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this apparently futile demonstration. I wanted my roommate to feel safe as she came back from the Quad or returned books to a library late at night. I wanted her to be able to go anywhere at any time without fear. And I wanted that same freedom of movement for myself...
...absence of fear, of fear that cripples movement and restricts freedom, is worth fighting for. We strengthen ourselves by asserting our unassailable right to live lives untouched by threat of violence, even if a nighttime march will not achieve safe streets, even if the night cannot yet be taken back...
...elections approached, Botha directed bellicose statements at nearby Zimbabwe, Botswana and Mozambique, charging that those countries were harboring guerrillas of the African National Congress, the South African liberation movement. The State President and his Foreign Minister, Roelof ("Pik") Botha, have been warning the A.N.C. that it would face such military strikes if it tried to disrupt the South African elections...
...clear whether investigators have been able to confirm a diversion in the range of $10 million to $30 million that Attorney General Edwin Meese III referred to on Nov. 25, 1986, when he first disclosed the movement of funds...
...play's message is not as subtle as its movement. The director, divinity student Laureen Smith, who wrote the play, cannot resist turning every intimate exchange between husband and wife into a scathing condemnation of a society that silently condones the exploitation of women. Least the audience forget, Smith periodically sends a bruised woman across the stage to state haltingly that beatings are simply a marital duty...