Word: wordly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these 16 nations prepare for their summit, we've sent out word to all our branches to send a supporting statement for the Bonn position, which we will deliver to the Bonn mission at the United Nations. We're calling for the abolition of all short-range nuclear weapons, East and West, and we're also proposing reduction of Warsaw Pact and NATO forces, both nuclear and conventional, to 50% of NATO's present strength. That is a first step to a united and disarmed Europe. I'll be going to Brussels myself, joining European members of the peace movement...
...confrontation between the people of the People's Republic of China and the government created a surreal deadlock -- chaotic yet tranquil, jubilant but darkly ominous. Using lampposts and bicycle racks, bands set up barricades on the avenues leading into the heart of the city. Word spread of a military plot to deploy forces via the Beijing subway system, but the plan went awry when transit workers decided to back the striking students and shut down the power supply. "The people will win!" many exclaimed. Still, the presentiment of danger always lurked, and several dozen people reportedly were injured in clashes...
Beyond these immediate wishes of the crowds, the picture becomes fuzzy. Democracy, the rallying cry of the demonstrators, is an ambiguous word. For some of the protesters, who have no experience and little knowledge of democratic practices in other countries, democracy meant the opposite of everything associated with Communist Party rule. "They can't enumerate concretely what they want," says a diplomat in Beijing, describing the antigovernment movement as fundamentally a "scream of the damned." As Grace, 19, a pig-tailed student who spent Friday night in Tiananmen Square, put it, "We think everything must change...
...There's a very strong feeling that the preservation of public space--and I emphasize the word 'public'--is important," said Pitkin...
...Wesbrook women, Lee Blessing says in his haunting off-Broadway play Eleemosynary, are determined to be exceptional. The grandmother is a New Age visionary, the mother a science scholar blessed (and cursed) with total recall, the child a national champion speller who not only knows the shape of words but revels in their layers of meaning. (The play's coy title is a spelling-bee word meaning charitable.) Yet for all their brains, beguiling eccentricity and epic betrayal, the women are touchingly ordinary in matters of the heart. Every woman, and everyone who knows and loves one, will recognize...