Word: hides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Socialists had been struck, Communist Party Boss Georges Marchais, in a rare moment of candor, dropped his usual ebullient swagger and admitted that his party had not exactly been dealing from a position of strength. Said he: "I would be a hypocrite if I were to try to hide that we would have preferred to go into the government in a more comfortable situation from the point of view of our influence." He added lamely: "Some will call this capitulation. I call this the continuation and the development of the Communist Party's policy." But the far-left Paris...
...students boycotted classes to protest the festival and set off three days of demonstrations, flag burnings and brawls. On the outskirts of the city, police fired tear gas and waded into crowds of demonstrators with dogs and sjamboks, quirts traditionally used by Afrikaner farmers and originally made of rhino hide. Soon more than 50 organizations with a total membership in the millions were formally boycotting the festivities. Declared an ad hoc committee formed to protest the celebrations: "The Republic Festival is window dressing to fool the world that all is fine in sunny South Africa." Snapped Black Leader Gatsha Buthelezi...
...convicts. Most are hardened criminals serving long sentences for crimes ranging from arson to rape and murder. Jackson's undermanned staff -there is only one guard for every 100 inmates-admits that it cannot cope with the heavily armed prisoners; according to one estimate they hone and hide more than 50 knives a day in the workshops...
...bility, better manners, decency," says Scott Thomson, executive director of the National Association of Secondary School Principals. "What the Christian school movement is saying is that public schools have two to three years to do a better job. If public schoolteachers are moral, work hard, and don't hide behind one or an other legal curtain in dealing with val ues, then most of the Christian parents will be happy and they'll go back to teaching Christianity elsewhere as they have done in the past...
...beats per minute, but his temperature remained near normal. He was in considerable pain, predictably, as the doctors explained. There is always a danger of complicating infections that sometimes develop after major abdominal injuries. To reduce that risk the doctors dosed him with antibiotics. Said Crucitti: "I do not hide that the situation is grave and the next few days will give us the answer, which we hope will be favorable." If there is no crisis, in several days the Pope will probably begin drinking liquids and eating semisolid food. Even before the colon is rejoined, he should start light...