Word: witching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...everyone; everyone should be equal before the law. Nor should we yield to pressure from those who would like us to tighten the - screws, as they put it. Of course we'll find some screws loose, and they will have to be tightened. But repression, witch-hunts, the search for enemies -- all that is unacceptable. It's not what we want, and it's not what our people want...
Three days later, Zhou went into hiding after he learned that the innovative Stone Corp., the computer firm he had worked for as a policy planner, had become the target of a witch-hunt. Its president, Wan Runnan, now a leading dissident in exile in Paris, had been close to then party chief Zhao Ziyang and an ardent supporter of the students...
...turn to face the issue. Next January, for the first time since 1983, a new face will be occupying the Corner Office. While the next few months should be spent choosing a leader who will lead this troubled state into stabler fiscal ground, what may result is a political witch-hunt, with each side of the abortion issue attempting to brand candidates "politically correct" or "incorrect...
...subtitle of Ruddigore, the latest production of the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players, is "The Witch's Curse," but there is nothing evil about this charming operetta. With the help of a funny script, an engaging plot, excellent acting and singing, Ruddigore delivers an evening of great fun at the Agassiz Theater...
...curse, inflicted upon the family by a witch burned at the stake by one of Ruthven's ancestors, decrees that each succeeding baron must commit a crime each day or die in agony. Thus exposed, Ruthven must abandon Rose and return to Ruddigore Castle and begin his life of crime. After incurring the displeasure of the ghosts of his ancestors for performing crimes deemed too paltry (he forges his own will and disinherits a son he does not have), Ruthven discovers a way to escape the curse, and, in typical Gilbert and Sullivan style, live happily ever after...