Word: thousanders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yesterday's rally began with a few thousand protesters gathering on downtown Wenceslas Square, but the crowd grew to 30,000 as demonstrators reached Narodini Street, where white-helmeted riot police beat demonstrators Friday...
...hottest water, though -- and it's kind of scary the Government might work this way -- is that he refused to provide damning evidence against Drexel and others: "Cooperate and we'll go easy on you. Stonewall us and we'll kill you." We've seen it on TV a thousand times...
More than 3 million East Germans headed West over the weekend, while several hundred thousand people made their way to Berlin from other countries to join a 4-day-old celebration...
...face. He is distinguished also by his growing interest in the tribes of Amazonia and their right to survive. The narrator recalls provoking his friend on this subject: "Should 16 million Peruvians renounce the natural resources of three- quarters of their national territory so that 70 or 80 thousand Indians could quietly go on shooting at each other with bows and arrows, shrinking heads and worshipping boa constrictors?" Saul's response is skimpy on particulars but firm in conviction: "Though we don't understand their beliefs and some of their customs offend us, we have no right to kill them...
...recent years, the council has been plaguedby difficulties in sponsoring successful concerts.After backing out of a deal with Chuck Berryseveral years ago, the council last fall sponsoreda concert by reggae star Jimmy Cliff, which lostit several thousand dollars...