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Word: stoning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leaders called for further investigation, and radical demonstrators demanding Chun's arrest battled with police. By the weekend President Roh Tae Woo, who has tried to distance himself from his former close friend, called for national forgiveness for Chun. Asked Roh: "When he himself apologized deeply, how can we stone the former President alone on the grounds that there were many mistakes in the past?" But Roh stopped short of granting his predecessor the official pardon Chun had hoped for. Roh's caution probably reflects his uncertainty about whether the Korean people are ready to forgive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

...does her intellect and ambition? If she does so, is she responsible for the prefeminist urges she triggers in men? Or is she just getting what she asked for, in a body language as old as the species? Can every man cop a plea of biological imperatives, of Stone Age lust, when he uses force as a tool of courtship? At what point does the love game turn into a war game, whose body count is one rape reported every six minutes in the U.S. and one rape in four involving multiple attackers? Finally, are those who watch a rape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bad Women and Brutal Men | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

Dining Service Supervisor John Shaffer said he found the paint still wet on the gate when he arrived at 4:45 a.m. last Thursday. In addition, he said paint had been splattered on the stone passageway surrounding that gate, on the stone floor and on chairs inside the dining hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Short Takes | 11/15/1988 | See Source »

Beginning today, workers will remove the splattered paint from the stone, sand down the gate and repaint it black, its original color...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Short Takes | 11/15/1988 | See Source »

During the election, Thompson campaign manager Francis R. Stone claimed that misplaced stickers were the work of Graham supporters, who he says used tape, black ink--and stickers--to deface Thompson's name in the ballot book, making it appear as if there were no Democratic nominee...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Graham-Thompson Election Exceeds Voting Technology | 11/12/1988 | See Source »

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