Word: springs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Last spring, Huerta and Lifford were elected co-captains for the 1988-89 season. Both have gained respect from their teammates and coaches...
Feldstein has chosen Douglas W. Elmendorf toreplace Lindsey as head teaching fellow for Ec 10.Elmendorf, who has yet to receive his doctorate,said yesterday he will serve out the spring as aninstructor in economics and will probably begranted an assistant professorship July 1st afterhe defends his dissertation...
...study groups conducted by the fellows willbe open to undergraduates as well as graduatestudents throughout the spring semester. Thefellows will also be in the undergraduate houseson occasion for meals
...Paris, what began as a 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...
They failed. Soviet tanks crushed the Prague Spring. The Fifth Republic endured. The Viet Nam war ground on. The alchemy of revolt was powerful enough to shake the world, but not quite enough to change...