Word: v
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stalin kept only part of the bargain. On Aug. 8, three months after V-E day and only six days before Japan surrendered, the Soviets finally declared war on Tokyo. At almost no cost, Stalin not only got the Japanese islands but also stripped Manchuria of most of its heavy industrial equipment and shipped it back to the Soviet Union. In Eastern Europe not only did Soviet troops remain in large numbers, but Communists brutally subverted political parties and seized control of national police and military organizations to ring down the Iron Curtain. At the time, the war-weary West...
...great doors swing open to reveal the caped figure of King Henry V, sexily backlighted. His bishops and courtiers gaze at him like apostles at the unseen Jesus in some old biblical epic. And finally the monarch of Britain -- and of this robust new movie -- shows his face and speaks. It is an entrance angled to register awe for Kenneth Branagh. But how much awe can a 28-year-old actor, little known outside Britain and directing his first film, expect to inspire? Branagh recalls that when Judi Dench, who plays Mistress Quickly, first saw this scene, "she laughed...
John Weisbrod V had always worshipped John Weisbrod IV, and the elder Weisbrod had always encouraged the younger's interest in hockey. It was Weisbrod IV who bought season tickets to the beloved Rangers and the hated Islanders...
...Supreme Court's ruling this summer in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services and several decisions pending this fall are expected to give the states more power to limit abortions...
...March on Washington to defend a woman's right to choose an abortion. The national situation has since become more grave for defenders of this right, with an increasingly antagonistic Republican administration in office and a Supreme Court handing down decisions like this past July's answer in Webster v. Reproductive Services, which made it legal for a state to restrict a woman's access to abortion...