Word: mentioning
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Party Chairman. Still, China's leaders were doing nothing to dispel stories that he had lost power. National newspapers lavishly displayed an article that was filled with oblique but unmistakable criticisms of Hua. "The party's prestige is not high now," the article declared, hardly needing to mention that Hua Guofeng has been the party's leader for nearly five years. Some leaders of the Central Committee made mistakes even after the downfall of the Gang of Four, the article went on, pointing specifically to a "cult of personality." As every Chinese knows, just such a cult...
Biff! Bam! Pow! Also Ugh! Yargh! Ptui! Not to mention Eek! Awwk! and Aggrrraa...
...high above the student rallies. They have forgotten that it accepted hearsay evidence; they have forgotten that it would not permit appeal outside of itself. They have forgotten that students and faculty were not equally represented on the committee panel. They have forgotten that Faculty and administrators--not to mention the police--could not be prosecuted for breaking the same rules as the students...
...English Language," the "Developments since 1800" list cryptically notes, "Oxford, Century and Merriam-Webster in high-flying company. Oxford, on the other hand, goes on for several pages about the OED and James Murray's gallant 37-year struggle to publish the weighty tome, but does not even mention the Webster edition. War simmers among the lexicographers...
...Pittsburgh Press covered the front page with a picture of a dejected Terry Bradshaw, the Steelers' cowboy quarterback, and devoted the entire sports section to self-pity. Pittsburgh's other daily paper, the Post-Gazette, didn't even have the heart to mention the game...