Word: sides
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...three hours the crowd swelled with new arrivals: miners from Silesia wearing their traditional long black coats and plumed czaka, railway workers from Lublin, bus drivers from Pulawy. Hundreds of thousands strong, they spilled out into side streets, waiting patiently in the early twilight while the tender strains of a Chopin piano concerto wafted from a loudspeaker. They had come to Gdansk to honor the memory of 45 workers killed by police and army bullets ten years before in riots along the Baltic coast. At long last a monument had been built: three slender trunks of steel crowned by crosses...
...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 swirled around only Hua for several months in 1976 and 1977 when his pictures were displayed side by side with Mao everywhere...
M.I.T. Economist Lester C. Thurow believes that this high inflation forecast may be too low. Said Thurow: "The risks are all on the down side. The economy could all too easily get some big new oil shock, for example. Or grain harvests might be disappointing and force up food prices. On the other hand, it is very hard to think about what piece of good news, might come along to make everything look better...
...transcendence, of return to the modern godhead of the self. He is off on a perilous trip down through the memory of the race, and his only connection to reality is the umbilical cord of his need and, finally, his love for Emily. He often curls naked into her side as if wounded, seeking succor, reliving the Pieta. Again and again, Eddie dies and is reborn; each time he finds the action frightening, and "supremely satisfying." At the end, the couple fuse and are redeemed through the power of love. Altered States opens in New York and Los Angeles...
...Reagan's father (Jack) observed to Mr. Reagan's mother (Nelle) and brother (Moon) that baby Ronald looked like "a fat Dutchman." Mr. Reagan readily took to his nickname because he felt that Ronald was "a bit on the sissy side." So, should we call him Dutch? Dutch and Mommie? Granted, this is not the sort of problem that has the country's big thinkers in a tizzy, but perhaps nicknames count for more than they appear to. Harry Truman was lucky enough to have his given name sound like a nickname, so as President...