Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shell," says Rita Urban, a mother of six. "Before this I was a sit-at-home housewife with an eighth grade education. It's great to be able to get a break and meet other people. When you're stuck in the house, your friends all seem to be gone...
...first Saturday in February may seem to be nothing more than another day in the month. But for squash fans, its the day of "The Match...
...protest over sex-segregated dormitories ballooned into a political movement that nearly drove Charles de Gaulle from office. In Mexico, student demonstrations shortly before the opening of the Olympic Games were brutally suppressed. In Czechoslovakia during the spring, the Communist Party led by Alexander Dubcek undertook reforms that now seem a distant forerunner of Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost -- efforts to humanize the socialist structure, to encourage greater individual discretion. Euphoria bloomed in the "Prague Spring," until Soviet and other Warsaw Pact tanks rolled into town in August and crushed the hope...
...success of the civil rights and women's movements has turned the world on its head. Those who challenged power are now in it, and their demands often seem unreasonable...
Medieval history may seem a bit arcane to most undergraduates, but this spring they'll have the opportunity to take courses with a prominent Oxford historian of the subject...