Word: reds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Constantine, the sandy-haired junior from International Falls, Minn., was the most sought-after high school goaltender in the nation four years ago. Cornell had an alumnus, Ken Dryden, call the 18-year-old and try to persuade him to do his collegiate thing with the Bid Red. RPI offered him a full scholarship and the chance to pursue an engineering career between saves at its less than aesthetic Troy, N.Y., campus...
...diplomatic quarter in Peking. The Boxers held the quarter for eight weeks, until an international expedition of 19,000 troops captured the city and freed the thousands held hostage. That hostility to foreigners was echoed during the Cultural Revolution in 1967, when Chairman Mao Tse-tung's Red Guards burned the British mission, beat up British and Indian diplomats and attacked the fleeing families of Soviet diplomats as they boarded their plane. Mao tacitly approved the assaults. Indonesian officials also applauded the mobs that ransacked the British embassy in Djakarta...
...felt that they could not risk having it circulate throughout China. Wei, who had conducted his own defense at his trial, charged that China had scarcely changed since the ouster of the Gang of Four, led by Mao's widow Jiang Qing (Chiang Ch'ing). A former Red Guard who has become an impassioned proponent of democracy, Wei ridiculed the accusation of counterrevolutionary activity leveled against him and other dissidents: "It is revolutionary to act in accordance with the will of the people in power and counterrevolutionary to oppose the will of the people in power...
EVERY TIME it rains, an industrial landfill near Niagara Falls turns red with leaking chemicals. One of those chemicals is called dioxin; three ounces of it, properly distributed, would destroy the entire population of New York City. There are two thousand pounds of dioxin in the landfill...
...Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Jr. doesn't have a red nose--a birth defect, a mutation due to radioactive waste," he explained...