Word: saturday
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
More than 4,000 protesters rallied near the plant Saturday. Bands played and protesters sang and listened to speakers denounce the plant...
...told The Crimson, "We found girls staying in dormitory rooms after hours, boys from other Houses writing illegibly in the sign-in books, girls being signed out by someone other than her host and many other infractions. Sometimes girls are signed out at midnight on Saturday and they're still in there...
...Radcliffe administrators were more tolerant about student sexuality. As Radcliffe President Mary Bunting told The Crimson, "of course, I don't go through the Houses on Saturday night, and I haven't been making a special point of talking to the girls on the subject, but Radcliffe College should not ask what everybody is doing every minute...
...played out with the panoply and sweep of a revolutionary grand opera. While much of the world watched, for a time, via satellite TV transmission, hundreds of thousands of students and sympathizers filled Beijing's Tiananmen Square, demanding greater democratization and an end to nepotism and corruption. On Saturday, May 20, with the government and the Chinese capital paralyzed, the curtain rang down ominously on Act I: Premier Li Peng, a principal target of the demonstrators' wrath, and President Yang Shangkun imposed martial law; troops from the People's Liberation Army (P.L.A.) mustered to enter the city...
...short his visit to Washington (canceling a tennis match with the President), ostensibly for reasons of health, and headed home. But instead of returning to Beijing, he landed in Shanghai, where he was put up in a guesthouse outside the city -- possibly under house arrest. On Saturday a statement was read on Chinese television saying that Wan Li supported Li Peng -- dashing the hopes of protesters that Wan would convene an emergency session of the National People's Congress to consider Li's removal...