Word: sections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...began life in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, discovered aspects of the "Socialist dream" in adolescence and taught philosophy at New York University for more than four decades. There, as in such books as The Hero in History, The Paradoxes of Freedom and Pragmatism and the Tragic Sense of Life, Hook established a well-founded reputation as a secular humanist. He questioned received ideas and challenged those who substituted passion for logic. The professor played no favorites, and few were happy with his investigations. To '30s conservatives, he seemed a Marxist apologist; to '60s New Leftists, he was a cold...
...Iranians are clearly trying to break the city's will. Nearly every building along the section of the Shatt al Arab that flows past Basra has been damaged or destroyed. The beige facade of the deserted four-story Sheraton Basra is pockmarked with shrapnel and shell holes. During the intense bombardment in January and February, thousands of panicked residents abandoned their middle-class brick homes near the water...
...once the band had completed its song, nothing but silence emanated from the Harvard rooting section. For the first time in memory, Crimson hockey fans didn't bludgeon the opposing goalie with cries of "sieve, sieve, sieve...
...Soviet Union may have ushered in its era of openness, but Czechoslovakia's Communist authorities seem bent on proving that it is not contagious. In Prague five leaders of the independent cultural organization known as the Jazz Section were convicted last week of illegally continuing to distribute music, newsletters and art books...
...sound of rhythmic clapping by more than 150 protesters outside the courtroom, Chief Judge Vladimir Stiborik sentenced Karel Srp, 50, the Jazz Section head, to 16 months in prison and Secretary Vladimir Kouril to ten months. The other three drew suspended sentences. Noting the relative leniency, a Western diplomat called the trial a "symptom of this regime's schizophrenic response to Gorbachev...