Word: scene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Instead, Mulvehal began practicing on her own during the next three years. She played other junior players in the area but practically dropped out of the national scene...
...tensest moment came when the students burst through the last police line before Tiananmen Square, the symbolic seat of power and the scene two weeks ago of a violent confrontation between students and police. According to students, two were seriously injured and 300 briefly detained. As the activists proceeded down the Avenue of Eternal Peace toward the north side of the 100-acre square, they were met by truckloads of troops. But the soldiers made no move to stop the demonstrators, who swarmed around the trucks. After a few minutes, the vehicles and their bewildered passengers slowly drove away...
...American Scene...
...last week the attack had escalated from a local tragedy into a morbid national obsession. Perhaps the story resonated across the country because the victim was a wealthy, white financier with degrees from Wellesley and Yale. Or because the scene was Central Park, the backyard of powerful news media and a symbol of everything Americans most fear about New York City. Or it may have been because of the word wilding, which seemed simultaneously to define and obscure the transformation of a group of teenage boys into a bloodthirsty...
...important, goal in mind: a demand for greater democratization in the world's most populous country. Implicit in the spreading protest campaign was a call for a shake-up in China's Communist leadership, including the retirement of Deng Xiaoping, 84, after a decade in power. In a scene never witnessed in the 40 years of Communist rule, more than 1,000 students assembled outside the ornate red-lacquered gate of Zhongnanhai compound, where the top leaders officially live and work. Sitting on the pavement, lotus-like, they exhorted Premier Li Peng to hear their demands, chanting, "Come out! Come...