Word: springs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...convinced that new times will come to you, too, and that the Prague Spring will finally have its Summer," New Forum said in a letter sent to Czechoslovak human rights activists. The letter was made public in West Berlin...
...batallion--which Ryan said was specially trained by U.S. forces--comandeered the local schoolhouse as a garrison and captured Manuel Cartagena, the former mayor of San Jose Las Flores who visited Cambridge last spring...
Retired after 31 years as chief of intelligence. A clever innovator, he knows where the bodies are buried and the moles are burrowed. Last spring, while promoting his book Troika, a story of East-West relations, he expressed admiration for Gorbachev...
Trouble started in the spring, when congressional leaders and the Bush Administration began putting together a deal. The President's goal was to keep his read-my-lips campaign promise of "no new taxes." Congressional leaders wanted to appear to meet deficit-reduction targets without cutting any politically popular spending programs. Budget director Richard Darman came up with a solution that was simple -- too simple. A cut in the capital-gains tax would at least temporarily raise money to cover the revenue shortfall. Many Democrats at first supported the plan that looked like all gain, no pain...
...spring of 1872, the naturalist John Muir was asleep in a small cabin in the Yosemite Valley. "At half past two o'clock," he wrote later, "I was awakened by a tremendous earthquake . . . the strange thrilling motion could not be mistaken, and I ran out of my cabin, both glad and frightened, shouting, 'A noble earthquake! A noble earthquake!' feeling sure I was going to learn something...