Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...race for us, and we're very pleased," Weiss said. "Our coach [Liz O'Leary] saw it as a crucial, crucial race, and to win by such big margins was great...
...single drop of rain in 10 full days in the Soviet Union, which was amazing for this time of year. The weather was, in fact, so nice that we almost had to wonder if it was planned, staged for our U.S. delegation like so much else that we saw--or were allowed to see--in our role as an official delegation...
Furthermore those in our group who knew other Soviet citizens--primarily refusniks, Jews who have been refused exit visas, and nonconformists--saw another side of Soviet life and heard a different view of Gorbachev's reforms. Where the students were optimistic, many others saw a dismal future. One woman whose husband spent 15 years in a Siberian labor camp described the Soviet premier as "a man in search of power." And a long-time refusnik said, "Russia just isn't made for democracy. History proves it." When asked what she thought about the current situation, one woman abruptly answered...
...know the fellow on the left, but the one with the notebook is probably a little less familiar. He is John Parmelee, 17, a high school senior in the District of Columbia who saw his dream come true last week when he interviewed Ronald Reagan in the Oval Office. "He put me at ease immediately," Parmelee said. The student spent ten minutes with the President, asking him, among other things, how life had been different when Reagan was 17. "I wasn't doing what you're doing," the President said with a smile to his White House visitor...
...other images to record: those of Jewish soldiers shooting and beating demonstrators who were armed only with stones, roughing up Arab women, and even breaking the bones of unarmed captives. As these images flashed around the world, soiling the reputation of the once vaunted Israel Defense Force, Jerusalem quickly saw the dark side of its enlightened media policy. Officials came to an all too familiar conclusion: the press was to blame...