Word: sides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impossible to tell, from page to page, just how this improbable hero will perform his role, not only for the nervous intelligence officers monitoring his every move but for the readers as well. With scarcely an intimation of sex, no violence and not a side arm visible, Le Carre has again managed to construct a plot of commanding suspense. Never before has he so successfully merged his narrative and contemplative gifts. The Russia House is both afire and thought provoking, a thriller that demands a second reading as a treatise on our times...
...system, but the plan went awry when transit workers decided to back the striking students and shut down the power supply. "The people will win!" many exclaimed. Still, the presentiment of danger always lurked, and several dozen people reportedly were injured in clashes with police and troops. On one side of Beijing, flatbed trucks were seen filled with soldiers armed with AK-47 assault rifles. As military helicopters, a rare sight in the city, swooped overhead, people below looked up and shook their fists. Any attempt to disperse the crowds and end the demonstrations would seem to require massive firepower...
Goldman has maintained that public disorder, spurred by both the slow pace of some reforms and the side effects of others--like inflation arising from the easing of price controls--will lead conservatives to seize power from Gorbachev...
...course it isn't. It's about human life and when human life begins," Doris (D-Revere) said. Asserting that life begins at conception and citing several medical authorities on his side, Doris argued that all citizens have a duty to protect the rights of "the unborn...
Williams said yesterday that he would prefer to hold a hearing at the end of June, rather than during the fall. Because the bus driver, Geoffrey J. McQuilken '91, will be in Cambridge over the summer, Williams said he believed there would be enough evidence to prove his side of the case...