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Word: movement (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sophomore guard Maura Healey's bomb from three-point range pulled the Crimson back even, 20-20. Carried by strong rebounding and excellent movement off missed Vermont shots, the Crimson went into the locker room at halftime with a slim 32-30 advantage...

Author: By Tai Wong, | Title: W. Cagers Cool Cats, 73-70 | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

This is a small matter next to the chance for peace on earth or a free Eurasia. But it's a matter of immediate practical import. In the past decade the conservative movement remade the face of American politics. Politics must change if conservatives do. And how can conservatives avoid changing once they don't have Karl Marx to kick around anymore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Being Right in a Post-Postwar World | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

...founders of the movement in the '50s and early '60s -- the people who wrote for National Review and nominated Barry Goldwater -- included Southern Agrarians and free-marketeers, isolationists and advocates of the rollback of Communism, students of T.S. Eliot and fans of Joseph McCarthy. In the '70s there was a mass immigration of mugged liberals -- the neoconservatives. Communism acted on all these grouplets as a powerful unifying force. Whether you wanted an American Century or a minimal state, you could not be comfortable with Soviet aggrandizement. Lenin was anathema whether your philosophical polestar was Thomas Aquinas or Ayn Rand. Like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Being Right in a Post-Postwar World | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

...reforms of the Prague Spring. Earlier that day, the new Politburo of the Czechoslovak Communist Party branded the invasion as wrong. Asked at a Milan press conference what he thought about that, Gorbachev tiptoed toward an apology, though without going all the way. The Prague Spring was "an acceptable movement for democracy, renewal and humanization of society," he said. "It was right then and is right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West: Turning Visions Into Reality | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

Another Arab leader who has seen the antiterrorist light -- or at least wants the world to think he has -- is Arafat, whose credibility rests on dissociating his mainstream Palestinian movement from the murderous activities of Abu Nidal. Arafat's recognition of Israel and renunciation of terrorism last December -- however grudging and ambiguous -- helped isolate Abu Nidal in the Arab world, and may have intensified the infighting within F.R.C. ranks. The P.L.O.'s concern is that the taint of terrorism could deny it a major role in Israeli-proposed Palestinian elections. Last week Arafat persuaded a meeting of Arab foreign ministers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finis for The Master Terrorist? | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

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