Word: robin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dogma drove the spike into the flesh of the country, even the revered ancients of the revolution were pushed to death. Li Ta, one of the original founding fathers of the Communist Party of China in 1921, was "struggled" against until he committed suicide. He Long, a Robin Hood peasant bandit who became a marshal of the Red Army and helped conquer south-central China for the revolution, had been a hero. He Long suffered from diabetes, but the hospital denied him water, then injected him with glucose instead of insulin. So he died...
...Harvard did play like a winner. Led by center back Ellen O'Neill, who is quickly developing into the Crimson's brightest new star and forward Andy Mainelli, the locals controlled the remainder of the game. Picking up loose ground balls and providing plenty of work for UNH goalie Robin Balducci, the Crimson seemed ready to break out of its early-season scoring slump...
...rise from the lower levels of the White House. Faith Ryan Whittlesey, who is something called Reagan's new assistant for public liaison, says she is "appalled" by television news and thinks "the media have tried to portray what we think are the bad guys, the Communists, as Robin Hoods." Her office predicts that Reagan will be proved as correct as Churchill was in the 1930s, and his critics as discredited as Neville Chamberlain. To make such an analogy valid, the country's survival would have to be equally at risk, and the public would have...
...office of Government and Community Affairs lost two top administrators in July. Robin Schmidt, the division's vice president, said he was stepping down to take a new job in California, where his children live, though he refused to be more specific. James B. King, the associate vice president who supervised Harvard's relations with state and local governments went to Northeastern to take on its newly created post of senior vice president of student affairs...
...crazy about her after all these years, were married in a Jewish ceremony at his West Side Manhattan apartment. The cast of guests appropriate to such a show-biz union included the bride's long-divorced parents, Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, Star Wars Creator George Lucas, Comedian Robin Williams, Simon's once and present singing partner, Art Garfunkel, and Billy Joel, who presented the couple with a jukebox filled with records from the 1950s. More traditionally, Papa Fisher gave his daughter six ruby, garnet, jade and diamond rings and a vintage Cartier watch...