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Word: role (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...busy in Tienanmen Square, taking the lead role in a series of pro-democracy demonstrations that rocked China to its core...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ...As Leading Student Dissident Enrolls After Escape from China | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

Currently one of the Chinese government's most wanted fugitives for his role in last spring's demonstrations, Wuer Kaixi will be taking classes along with Harvard students this fall as a visiting undergraduate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ...As Leading Student Dissident Enrolls After Escape from China | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

...says candidate Edward N. Cyr, "Leadership is an elusive quality. It's not transferable--you can't just assume that there's a Vellucci role out there...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Change Is a Certainty in a Wide Open Race | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

...three Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA) members on the Board push Harvard to divest its $168.3 million in South Africa-related stock and push the Board to take a more active--and often adversarial--role, the University's response has become more closed and paranoic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Intolerance of Opinions | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

...least that is what Rolfe tells us. He is the narrator of the novel, which includes a fatal deer-hunting accident and Wade's role in two murders, one the bludgeoning death of his father. Rolfe is a teacher who is up on modern literary devices. Ambiguity and a tendency to make the teller as important as the tale are conspicuous elements of his account. Rolfe's self-consciousness can be intrusive, though not nearly so much as his need to be the village explainer. Seemingly unsatisfied with his powers of observation and ability to convey male emotions, he reaches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fugitive | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

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