Word: turnings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government was not invulnerable: it was only an agency of brutal power. If the student campaign failed, it at least succeeded in forging a historic new link between China's intellectual community and its masses. As an observer said earlier in the week, "It will be impossible to turn back the clock...
...understaffed local force, are concentrating on drug arrests and housing-project security. Selling crack has become the city's biggest business, and is so widespread that peddlers sometimes flag down motorists on nearby I-70 to hawk crack packets at $20 a pop. Traffic backups on city streets often turn out to be buyers lined up at drive-through crack houses...
...recalls that by the age of 14 he was spending most of his time away from home and hanging out with a group of friends that he called his "homeboys." Says Edwards: "I never really had anyone to talk to. My father was gone. I had no one to turn to when I was in trouble, except my homeboys. They became my family...
...council repeals its resolution on ROTC, 43-39, but discussion on conditions for ROTC's return turn into chaos when Ken Lee cuts off debate...
...when the library system, facing a severe crunch as the burgeoning supply of books outstrips available storage facilities, needed a new director, who did the dean turn to? Verba, of course. He was named to the job in 1984 as soon as his term as associate dean ended...