Word: containment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year ago, Deng declared: "If the masses feel some anger, we must let them express it." Since then, to the dismay of China's leadership, dissidents have pasted up posters on democracy wall bluntly attacking the authoritarianism of the regime. New underground magazines have sprung up; they contain detailed reports on the horrendous conditions in Chinese prisons as well as sharply worded demands for human rights...
...priced versions of, say, furniture. But, in the old bait-and-switch technique, the cheaper items are often not available. The price of basic bread in Poland has remained officially unchanged for 15 years at 6? per lb.; but newer-style and more popular breads of higher quality that contain honey or bran and cost up to three times as much are also frequently unavailable...
...something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one." I'm sure that a very small classroom would contain all the people at Harvard who share Ruskin's opinion, but without such a conception art is not worth bothering with. I met very few people at Harvard who really cared about art, who sought it out as a first-hand experience rather than accepting passively what was flashed...
Boggling figures of that sort have been popular as curiosities ever since Archimedes tried to calculate how many grains of sand the universe could contain (1051, he said). Today, however, mind-walloping numbers are no longer oddities; they are the stuffing of ordinary news and public discourse. While even the biggest figures no doubt possess meaning, it is impossible not to suspect that many casually circulated numbers might as well be the music of the spheres...
Flaring tempers marred the end of the game as the Tigers became frustrated by the score and several calls that made the referees appear orange-crimson colorblind. Having failed to contain the physical second-half play before it caused problems, the referees awarded the Tigers three yellow cards in an attempt to regain control...