Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Word of the Nanjing violence set off further outbreaks. In Hangzhou, African students boycotted classes. In Wuhan and Beijing, hundreds of Chinese students staged anti-African demonstrations. The Gambia government registered a formal protest, and diplomats from Ghana and Benin voiced displeasure over Chinese treatment of their nationals. But overall reaction from the continent was restrained, reflecting the conflicting nuances of Africa's dealings with China: gratitude for decades of Chinese support; familiarity with Chinese ; racism, which has been intensified by economic frustrations; and worries about how to protect existing links with Beijing...
...what is mere money when one has become a figure of legend, a figure immortalized, if that is the word, in Judith Krantz's I'll Take Manhattan? "Donald Trump, the brilliant, ambitious young real estate man whom even his enemies had to admit was disarmingly unaffected," Krantz wrote with her endearing uncertainty about personal pronouns, "rose to meet Maxi...
...York is a tale of two cities--New York City and every other city. But for the Harvard women's basketball team, New York is a one-story state. In a word: victory...
...legitimate quarterback could have turned those games in Dallas' favor. While I don't have anything against Steve Pelluer or his family, he is a good back-up quarterback. The key word is "backup." Pelluer is like a substitute teacher--you're glad to have him--but you wouldn't want him everyday...
Lipkis emerged from his trials and errors a resourceful man, in the most literal sense of the word. Since founding TreePeople, he has enlisted volunteers everywhere, from senior citizens' homes to grade schools, to plant millions upon millions of trees. He has persuaded nurseries to donate unsold seedlings they would otherwise have destroyed. He has coaxed the California National Guard ("all those empty trucks and planes sitting around") into helping transport the trees. He once even persuaded Club Med to rescue and care for two exhausted TreePeople volunteers in Senegal who had fallen ill while planting fruit trees in famine...