Word: staked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...friend's new bride, to whom he impulsively proposed elopement in a stupor after lunch. Doors slam; people hop out from bushes and then back behind them; Platonov carries on simultaneous conversations, and the wrong people hear him. This might be French bedroom farce, except that lives are at stake. Whatever Platonov decides, his little world will not reach equilibrium again...
...disposal: assignment upon graduation to an uninteresting job in a remote location. But as the last month's events have suggested, some seem willing to risk even a promising future. "Somebody has to do it," says a recent Peking University graduate. "The fate of the country is at stake." The demonstrations, he added, "will eventually be viewed as a boon to history because they are keeping our leaders on their toes, forcing them to speed up the modernization and democratization process...
...common this time in press coverage. Print all the facts you can find (often in numbing detail), but mute the rhetoric. It is as if journalists, as well as opposition politicians, want to avoid appearing guilty of "breaking another President," knowing that their own reputations are also somehow at stake, along with those of the President and the President...
...last Sunday was met with a complete lack of concern. As the sole elected, representative body of Harvard undergraduates, the council, and especially its leader, have an obligation to take an unambiguous stance against both the substance and symbols of anachronistic and offensive attitudes like sexism and elitism. At stake is the character of the Harvard community...
...center of this frenzied drama is Ronald Reagan. His presidency is at stake. Come to think of it, it is our presidency too. But that is often forgotten in this singular city, which is at once saddened by the spectacle of another wounded President and exhilarated by the pursuit and the adventure of what amounts to a duel to the death on the nightly news...