Word: movingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mahin Root's father is white; her mother is black. So when the 14-year-old girl tried to register this year as a junior at Page High School in Greensboro, N.C., she faced a problem: a form that asked her to specify her race. Instead of filling in the...
Legends are tough to fight; legends with fat wallets become moving targets. "I grew up on most of these people. But I don't really like what a lot of them are doing anymore," says Perry Farrell of the cutting-edge Los Angeles band Jane's Addiction. "A lot of...
Helms recently exhumed his notes, which were written later. "A firm handshake, the Nazi salute, a smile. The personality of Germany's dictator was not hypnotic. Physical appearance: less attractive than from a distance. Hair: dark brown, fine in texture, inclined to rustiness in front, slightly graying on the crown...
Without the slightest warning, Germany's General Walther von Brauchitsch sent the Fourth Army smashing through the disputed Polish Corridor, isolating the Free City of Danzig; the Eighth and Tenth Armies striking over the Vistula plain toward Warsaw; the Fourteenth Army driving across Silesia toward Cracow -- 1.5 million men in...
If most of the country is moving at a snail's pace in carrying out perestroika, the relatively more prosperous Baltic states have been pressing the Kremlin to go further with economic reforms. Moscow officials have opposed the idea of independent national currencies, but that has not stopped the three...