Word: window
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kneerim found out what happened if you took liberties. One night, she recalls, a Harvard friend drove up to the Quad in his brand-new MG. Kneerim and her friends sat around drinking champagne to christen the car, while the dorm's housemother peered through the window at them...
...matches. Deng Xiaoping, China's de facto leader, is sensitive to public rowdiness because his leftist opponents within the Communist Party are quick to criticize any signs of "bourgeois" trends in Chinese society. As Peking's Sports News sermonized on its front page last week, "Athletic events are a window on socialist spiritual civilization...
From their fortified redoubt, they unfurled banners out the window (U.S. STOP SUPPORT OF THE MILITARY DICTATORSHIP, read one). They also scattered leaflets that condemned both the U.S. and the government of President Chun Doo Hwan. As 400 policemen surrounded the building, U.S. embassy officials moved to prevent a violent counterattack by reminding the government that Korean forces could not legally enter a U.S. diplomatic building. Calmly inviting U.S. diplomats inside for face-to-face conversations, the students delivered demands that centered on U.S. withdrawal of support from the Chun regime. Unless their appeals were met, they warned, they would...
...behind them, police in blue jumpsuits ran from doorway to doorway and, as some observers claimed, paused to return gunfire from the Move house with an array of shotguns and automatic weapons. Cameraman Pete Kane of Channel 10, a local CBS affiliate, watched the action from an upper story window just 100 yds. from Move's headquarters. "Debris was flying everywhere," he says. "Entire trees were exploding in fire." As night fell, the flames tinged the Philadelphia horizon red. Finally, at 11:47 p.m., even < as houses continued to burn, the fire department declared the blaze under control...
...long bus ride from Houston to Austin, the green flatlands float past the window and Madonna settles down for an interview. She is wearing a Kelly green knit skirt, which is peeled down over her belly, and a Paisley shirt knotted above her waist. Her streaked blond hair is twisted into a bun and held in place by a big red bow. Her lips are painted bright red and exaggerated. Her voice is a little raw and raspy...