Word: taking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dramatically Sakharov had aged lately, as he made his faltering way to the podium around 6 p.m. Still, there was nothing irresolute about his short impassioned speech. He defended his earlier, controversial call for a nationwide strike to end the Communists' institutionalized monopoly of Soviet political life. "We cannot take responsibility for what the party is doing," he declared. "It's leading the country into a crisis by dragging its feet on perestroika...
...held in confinement by KGB guards 24 hours a day in a small apartment in Gorky, 261 miles east of Moscow. There both became increasingly incapacitated by heart disease. Word reached Moscow's dissident community that Bonner's lips and fingernails had turned blue and that Sakharov could hardly take a few steps without being winded. When the Soviets denied Bonner permission to go abroad for an open-heart operation, her husband went on a hunger strike. The authorities relented, but the ailing Sakharov remained under house arrest until 1986, when Mikhail Gorbachev summoned him back to Moscow. Sakharov...
...earliest the bill is expected to reach the House floor is tomorrow since no formal House session is scheduled for today, and it is expected to take a day to write the formal comprise report once House-Senate negotiations are completed...
Young though they may be, the freshmen and sophomores who comprise the rest of the ladder aren't lacking in experience. Take, for example, freshmen Marty Clark and Josh Horwitz, both of whom have yet to lose a game this season. Their squash backgrounds are impressive, indeed. Clark was the number-one U.S. under-18 player last year. Horwitz was right behind Clark at number...
...like to make the finals in the IC4As this spring," Horner said. "But that will take a lot of effort...