Word: waved
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gromyko would show up to face the heat. He not only showed up but droned through a standard speech about disarmament. His audience listened anxiously to hear whether Gromyko would mention the airliner. He did, in a few defiant sentences at the end, accusing the U.S. of inspiring "a wave of slander and shameless insinuations against the U.S.S.R...
Soviet attempts to woo the international peace movement clearly have been set back?and the antinuclear movement might be damaged by a wave of you-can't-trust-the-Soviets feeling. David Corn, a leader of U.S. antinuclear activists, writing an open letter to Andropov in the New York Times, asserted, "Your edge in the propaganda war of peace was shot down when the Korean jetliner fell from the sky ... A new 'get tough' attitude in the West will hinder our efforts . . . You now have to decide if the Soviet Union really gives a whit about peace...
...disparities in the quality of education for Blacks and whites, thousands of Soweto students noted for several days in 1976, burning books and vandalizing schools before being brutally quelled by South African Police. Dozens of Black students were killed in the riots, outraging many students here and prompting a wave of demonstrations against the conditions of inequality for Black and whites in South Africa that-persist today. "The 1976 Soweto riots rally generated an enormous amount of students activity [on U.S campuses]. "Says Gail Hovey, research coordinator for the American committee on Africa (ACOA). After that start, others...
...disparities in the quality of education for Blacks and whites, thousands of Soweto students rioted for several days in 1976, burning books and vandalizing schools before being brutally quelled by South African police. Dozens of Black students were killed in the riots, outraging many students here and prompting a wave of demonstrations against the conditions of inequality for Blacks and whites in South Africa that persist today. "The 1976 Soweto riots really generated an enormous amount of student activity [on U.S. campuses]," says Gail Hovey, research coordinator for the American Committee on Africa (ACOA). After that start, others...
...everyone agrees that old instruments are the wave of the future. Indeed, orchestras are unlikely any time soon to trade in their modern instruments for softer-toned period pieces, which cannot project well in large concert halls. "Every great artist in the world plays on modern instruments. Name one who uses authentic instruments," challenges Gerard Schwarz, music adviser to New York's Mostly Mozart Festival, which uses conventional instruments. Neville Marriner, for years conductor of London's Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, also criticizes the authenticity movement. "Music played on the instruments composers would have known...