Word: redness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Graham's twilight years, the 1950s Red baiter has been targeting the Communist world. Over the past decade, Graham has managed to preach salvation and world peace in Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Hungary and -- three times -- the Soviet Union. Last April he conducted his first tour of mainland China, where his wife Ruth was raised by missionary parents. Prior to the arduous three-week visit, he was briefed by Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger; during it, he was the second foreign dignitary (after Corazon Aquino) to be received by new Premier Li Peng...
Carol Bowen, 46, ducks into the teachers' lounge at Harrison Elementary School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, at 8:40 a.m. for a quick gulp of coffee. Then she heads back to Room 208 to wait for her third-grade students, who have formed two lines outside the red brick building. This particular morning the girls' line enters first. As they file past, one child, Heidi, stops and shyly hands Bowen a slender envelope. Inside is a bookmark. Its inscription: "To my teacher: thank you for taking the time to share what you have learned...
Unfortunately, liberal arts won't be much use against the Aggies or the Razorbacks. Already the '89 schedule sends shivers. A blood-red banner in the coaches' room heralds the opener against Rice. From there the schedule gets much worse: Texas, Notre Dame. Away. Arkansas. "I'll be happy if we just stay competitive going into the fourth quarter," admits Single. But others worry whether the Mustangs can even get on the board...
Seated behind a row of tables decked out in red, white and blue bunting, workers answered the intermittent jangle of ringing telephones. Others stared intently at their computers, logging results state by state. And every few minutes a worker walked over to a map of the U.S. and attached a blue or red cutout over one or more states...
Others scoff at the idea that most pursuits involve fleeing ax murderers or worse. Half the time police are running after someone who has committed a minor traffic violation. Such was the case in Philadelphia last month, when police sped after a car that ran a red light; the ten-block chase through a residential area ended in the deaths of a 52-year-old father of nine and an eleven-year-old girl...