Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...DOUBT it will be an impressive sight...
...doubt six million pebbles--three million sitting atop Poland alone--will be quite a sight. And that's the point, of course, said David Poskin, a Brandeis first-year student who is coordinating the display through the Brandeis Hillel. "It wasn't just six million that died," he explained in an interview. "It was six million people. It's more than a number...
...inclusion of the five million non-Jewish Holocaust victims in the Brandeis project would not have diminished its effectiveness. In fact, if Poskin's group is relying on the visual impact of six million pebbles to accomplish its goal, it seems that the sheer sight of 11 million pebbles would only hammer home even harder the horrors of the Holocaust. Simple arithmetic, right...
...midafternoon by now, and we want to find out what has happened back in the square. We discover an astonishing sight: the army lines have been pulled completely back. The square is packed with Tadzhiks listening to their leaders addressing them through a microphone from atop a Soviet army APC. From Tadzhiks in the street we learn that the rattled authorities have agreed to halt lethal confrontations with the angry crowds. "The people demand the resignation of the government!" shouts one speaker. Others call for an end to the sale of pork in public markets, the punishment of soldiers...
...mullah takes the microphone and sings out the traditional Muslim call to prayer in Arabic. "Allahu akbar! Allahu akbar! Allahu akbar!" the call begins. Mesmerized, the Tadzhiks as one man -- there is not a woman in sight among the 10,000 except Alexandra -- raise their hands in the traditional Muslim posture of worship. The Soviets stiffen. The officers disappear from the windows. Except for the wail of the mullah, a total hush has descended upon the gathering. After the prayer call, the mullah reads a sura from the Koran honoring the dead. Three minutes later, the prayer and reading...