Word: reade
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...answers to these questions are still far from obvious, and throughout a hotly contested fall city council race, politicians of all stripes--but primarily the city's conservative bloc--jumped on the school's departure for their own political ends. "Hypocrisy doesn't end with the Commonwealth Day School," read one popular banner displayed by the anti-rent control Small Property Owners Association...
Representatives of both Massachusetts senators read statements from the politicians expressing their support for the leaders of the prodemocracy movement in China and condemning President Bush's recent decision to extend China's most-favored-nation trading status...
...elegy written by two survivors of the Beijing massacre was read, accompanied by a song that was sung by a student in Tiananmen Square shortly before the massacre...
...funny, demanding and supercilious. He takes up a lot of space in this dishy backstage book: even here, the star system prevails. Despite the author's strenuous attempts at seriousness, the eruptive, disruptive talents who made the theater memorable are the same ones who make The Compass a good read...
...father, a Communist Party functionary, was accused of exploiting the area's peasants. He was imprisoned by Stalin's secret police, and his library at home was sealed. "I walked by that room every day," says Pavlov. "I will never forget." As soon as he could read, Pavlov pored through a tome on Stalin's 1930s trials. "From my father's experience, I knew that many had been unjustly treated," says Pavlov, who dates his distrust for dictatorships from that awakening...