Word: posterity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in 1940. In downtown Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, a group of young hunger strikers has set up a makeshift shelter decorated with placards calling for liquidation of the Nazi-Soviet pact. HOW LONG WILL THE RED ARMY BE MASTER OF OUR LAND, declares a poster with a blood-red footprint on a map of the republic. On Aug. 23, the date of the agreement, popular-front groups hope to organize a human chain from Estonia to Lithuania, a sort of Hands Across the Baltics...
...innocent creature," said city forester John Giedraitis. When the tree shed beads of sap, he said, "it's weeping. This tree is under a tremendous amount of stress." Velpar maker Du Pont has put up a $10,000 reward for the capture of the tree's poisoner. Says a poster at the tree: HANG HIM FROM THE HIGHEST LIMB...
...also have some less-than-pleasant ones:sobering up much too late one night at LesleyCollege; sleepwalking and sleeptalking withincreasing frequency; watching people throw dartsat the Gary Carter poster over my desk; winningthe Great Chickwich Eat-Off against Duke (eight in32 minutes). But the year was easily the best oneI have ever...
...first glance, the black-and-white poster at Peking University hardly looked like a call for revolutionary change. Yet under the heading A DIRECTORY OF FAMOUS CHINESE, the broadside traced with devastating clarity the network of family ties that links China's top leaders and perpetuates their power. That farflung network, along with the rampant corruption that Chinese citizens are forced to endure each day, has gone far to galvanize the outcry for democracy in China's streets...
...least Chairman Mao was honest," said a worker from Hubei province as he carried a lifesized poster of Mao. "He even sent his son to the Korean War. Nowadays, the leaders send their sons to America...