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Word: spokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gorbachev appears to be attempting to turn the strike wave into a deeper popular commitment to his aims. While he sounded a warning that labor unrest "could damage everything we are doing," he spoke almost admiringly of how the strikers were behaving "in a responsible, organized and disciplined fashion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Revolution Down Below | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

SIOUX CITY, Iowa--Rescuers and survivors spoke of miracles, and investigators went "inch by inch" through a cornfield yesterday looking for an explanation of the fiery crash of United Flight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Investigators Seek Clues in DC-10 Crash | 7/21/1989 | See Source »

...young man on the videotape appeared pale and tired, but his identity was unmistakable. He was Wuer Kaixi, 21, the former Beijing Normal University freshman who emerged as the most charismatic leader during the student uprising in China, then disappeared after the massacre in Tiananmen Square. He evidently spoke from hiding in Hong Kong, where he is believed to have fled in mid-June through Macao. Thanks to an effective underground of sympathizers, only six of the 21 most-wanted student leaders have been apprehended. Wuer's friends say he may go to the U.S. to organize an alliance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Call to Arms | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

...while I constantly berated the first-yearexperience and sought my own niche with olderfriends, he spoke about the importance of thefirst year, about how much he missed having been afirst-year student at Harvard, about how much Ihad to look forward...

Author: By Emily M. Bernstein, | Title: Blase About First Year At Harvard | 7/7/1989 | See Source »

Most of those people never spoke to him again...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Just Remember One Thing: Avoid Any B-31 Room | 7/7/1989 | See Source »

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