Word: weeklong
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week those resentments flared into a weeklong upheaval involving some 5,000 demonstrators in the eastern city of Nanjing. The turmoil began on Christmas Eve, when a fracas broke out between a small group of African students and a security guard at the gate of Hehai University, which has the most black students of any Nanjing campus. According to official accounts, which were contested by foreign students, the Africans refused to register the names of their Chinese dates at a party. Chinese students heard a false report that the foreigners had killed the security guard and rampaged through...
...Pastry Arts Center, which charges students $700 a weeklong course, is an arm of Country Epicure, a thriving dessert company whose bakery in Elmsford turns out a tasty upscale line of frozen cakes, pies, tarts and tortes for the restaurant and hotel trade...
...team played bravely and well against Holland before being eliminated, by a score of 3-1, from the European Championship soccer tournament in West Germany last week. Outside Dusseldorf's Rheinstadion, however, England suffered a shameful defeat -- at the fists and feet of its own unruly fans. After a weeklong rampage through four West German cities, about 250 English hooligans -- some wearing T shirts reading INVASION OF GERMANY 1988, others with their faces painted in Union Jack colors -- had been detained for drunkenness, looting and fighting. One Irish fan died, drowning in Frankfurt's Main River apparently while intoxicated...
...stormed the holy shrine and wiped out extremists demanding independence for Sikhs in Punjab. Last week paramilitary troops besieged an estimated 70 Sikh terrorists who were again turning the temple into a fortress. After a Sikh gunman shot at police, Indian security forces returned fire and surrounded the complex. Weeklong gun battles left more than 30 dead...
MacLaine's New York Hilton session was part of a 15-city national tour (estimated earnings: $1.5 million) to spread the New Age gospel. Next year she plans to open Uriel Village, a 300-acre retreat in Baca, Colo., where customers will be able to get weeklong sessions of meditation, past-life regression therapy, and sound and color healing, among other things. "I want this to be all mine, my energy, my control," says MacLaine. "I want a big dome-covered meditation center and a series of dome-covered meeting rooms because spiritual energy goes in spirals. We'll grow...