Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...power. Present for the party, probably the biggest in Moscow's history, were such Communist all-stars as Hungary's Janos Kadar, Poland's Edward Gierek and East Germany's Erich Honecker. In the Kremlin's starkly modern Palace of Congresses, President Leonid Brezhnev rose to keynote the festivities with a 90-minute report on the state of the Soviet Union and the world. As always, he had quite a lot to say-about the latest Soviet grain harvest (somewhat disappointing), Moscow's current approach toward Peking (mildly conciliatory) and Eurocommunism...
Sadow's initiation to Harvard football began after the Rose Bowl game on January 2, 1920 when Harvard defeated the Oregon ducks, 7-6, in Pasadena. Sadow was then a newsboy in Boston and was enraptured by the account of the game. In a stentorian voice he recalls that one headline from that day's paper was "Oregon Captain Weeps...
...Paley ordered me fired, but when he saw a turn in my fortunes he switched as he would on a program if its ratings suddenly rose," Schorr said...
...enough and sufficiently wise to know that all you have said is not exactly according to facts," he said as he rose and responded to the tributes, "but I am sufficiently fragile and weak as to want to believe every single word you have said." His voice at times wavering with emotion, he launched into the new agenda he has set for himself?to restore harmony in the Senate, to rebuild trust in Government. At the end of his 15-minute speech, he apologized facetiously. "Well, I got wound up. I did not intend to be that long?but that...
...vigorous, yearlong purge of opponents of his regime, there is still some resistance?ranging from mute dissent to downright rebellion?on every level of the ruling bureaucracy. Even rank-and-file party members?traditionally the backbone of a Communist state ?are suspect. Analysts note that party membership rose from 21 million to 35 million in the past decade, when the Gang of Four was riding at its highest point. Perhaps as many as 10 million of those new recruits are suspected of being Gang of Four sympathizers...