Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exchange program of sorts: his former counterpart, Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, came to the U.S. last summer. Akhromeyev, now a close adviser to President Mikhail Gorbachev, accompanied Crowe on an eleven-day, nine-stop tour that stretched from Murmansk in the far north to Sochi on the Black Sea. Last week Crowe was summoned to the Kremlin for an audience with Gorbachev. The Soviet leader used the occasion to compliment the man who had appointed Crowe Chairman of the Joint Chiefs in 1985: "Former President Reagan saw the way things should go and turned the situation in the right direction...
...Klux Klan served prison sentences on federal charges of conspiring to deny the civil rights of Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner, no state charges were ever filed against the killers of the three civil rights workers, who were slain near Philadelphia, Miss., during the Freedom Summer of 1964. That may now change. Two weeks ago, Mississippi Attorney General Mike Moore announced that he is considering reopening the case...
...with their sides aligned with the rising sun at the vernal equinox, and the temple complex at Karnak was dedicated to Ra. The ancient circle at Stonehenge, in England, was apparently constructed so that the sun would rise over one of the great stones at the time of the summer solstice...
...hottest day of the year, good people can do bad things. Especially in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn's black ghetto where the crime rate sizzles and hopes evaporate in the summer glare. Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing is the story of a day in the death of the American Dream...
...slinks back to demand that Sal pay him his week's wages. Behind the camera, Lee wants the same thing: to create a riot of opinion, then blame viewers for not getting the message he hasn't bothered to articulate. Though the strategy may lure moviegoers this long hot summer, it is ultimately false and pernicious. Faced with it, even Mister Senor Love Daddy might say, "Take a hike, Spike...