Word: unfold
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When Gorbachev began waxing eloquent about a "common European home," he almost certainly did not anticipate the scenario that would unfold as the renovators plunged into the task. But unlike his predecessors, he may understand that the Soviet Union will be more secure with neighbors who tolerate free minds, free ideas, free speech, free markets and free movement. If handled properly, the revolution unfolding in one country after another opens up opportunities, unimaginable just a year ago, to create not just a new Europe but a new and far less menacing world order...
...another example of television's ability to create an instant global community as historic events unfold, some 60 million baseball fans in the U.S. and millions more in countries as distant as Japan and Australia got details on the California tragedy long before those who were closest to it. Just 21 minutes before the start of the World Series' third game, the TV pictures from San Francisco's Candlestick Park started to jiggle. ABC sportscaster Al Michaels shouted, "We're having an earth . . .!" Then the screens went black as power was lost. Soon the network switched to a rerun...
...Country is an ambitions undertaking, addressing a volatile episode in American social history that today is just beginning to unfold. The complex emotions and problems the film deals with have yet to be fully realized and it remains unclear whether America will ever be able to truly deal with the sense of loss and guilt that Vietnam provoked...
...repression. Brutal dictatorships were defeated in popular elections during the last year in Chile, Pakistan and, for all intents and purposes, Panama, while Poles this week voted in the first openly contested elections in the Soviet bloc. And, lest we forget, democratic openings in the Soviet Union continue to unfold at an amazing pace, astounding even the most cynical of observers, and culminating, so far, in a genuine choice for Soviet voters in the elections to the new Congress of People's Deputies two months...
About 150,000 people joined Saturday in one of the biggest protests in Communist China's 40-year history, holding a 15-hour rally at Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Authorities allowed the protest to unfold, but students alleged yesterday that police beat several and injured one seriously...