Word: turnings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what kind of corsage could you make up for me?" he asked of the clerk when his turn came. The other customers had no way of knowing that the newcomer needed the corsage for a high school father-daughter dance, a real treat for a returning expatriate. Ah, good old American sociability, he thought. What a relief after some of those gloomy European schools! "Wha?" said the clerk, a young man with a big mustache...
...three networks plus PBS. I got involved in a pretty good mystery, and all of a sudden the scene changed and one man has another man tied down and is working him over with a hammer. I asked the children to get up and turn the set off. That's all I'd ever been told to do: If you don't like what's on television, turn it off. Then I realized that I'm a part of a whole, larger social group, and what goes on in society, especially in the television industry, is going to affect...
...about the same time, the government issued harsh martial-law decrees ordering leaders of the prodemocracy movement, "important figures who incited and organized this counterrevolutionary insurrection in the capital," to turn themselves in for "lenient treatment." The decrees set up a spy-and-report network, complete with 18 telephone hot lines, so that citizens could help round up dissidents. Fearful of arrest, student leaders who had survived the carnage went underground or fled the city. The astrophysicist Fang Lizhi, a leading dissident who was prevented by the government from dining with George Bush during the President's visit last February...
...know: in 1953 the Committee for State Security hauled off his father, a diplomat, and the man was never seen again. Make the KGB's budget public and give the Congress the right to appoint its head, urged Vlasov. Move the agency to modest offices in Moscow's suburbs. Turn its forbidding headquarters at Dzerzhinsky Square into a library. "The bloody history of the main building is too unforgettable," he said. "This is where, for decades, orders for the destruction and persecution of millions were sent out. This service sowed grief, cries, torture on its native land...
Hundreds -- perhaps 1,000 or more -- are killed and additional thousands wounded as the military acts to quash the democracy movement. -- Jeers turn to cheers as President Bush seizes the initiative in the East-West dialogue by proposing sweeping conventional-arms cuts in Europe. -- In the U.S.S.R., parliamentary passions erupt in the Congress of People's Deputies. -- Iran's Ayatullah Khomeini dies at 89. See WORLD...