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On June 12, 1987, at the Brandenburg Gate, United States president Ronald Reagan delivered a speech commonly known by a key line from the middle part: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! " Reagan called for Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to open the Berlin Wall , which had encircled West Berlin since 1961.
"Tear Down the Walls", an episode of television program In the Heat of the Night; Tear down this wall!, a challenge from United States President Ronald Reagan to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to destroy the Berlin Wall; Tearing Down the Wall of Sound, biography of Sixties record producer Phil Spector, written by Mick Brown
Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! I understand the fear of war and the pain of division that afflict this continent—and I pledge to you my country's efforts to help overcome these burdens. To be sure, we in the West must resist Soviet expansion. So we must maintain defenses of unassailable strength.
[9] [15] English-language Nazi propagandist William Joyce used the term in his last propaganda broadcast on 30 April 1945, declaring that "the Iron Curtain of Bolshevism has come down across Europe." [ 16 ] German leading minister Lutz von Krosigk broadcast 2 May 1945: "In the East the iron curtain behind which, unseen by the eyes of the world ...
The Chinese government quickly shut down access to the Twitter Wall after internet users in China began using it to protest the Great Firewall. [ 63 ] [ 64 ] [ 65 ] In the United States, the German Embassy coordinated a public diplomacy campaign with the motto "Freedom Without Walls", to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the ...
As a last resort, Joseph was directed to fire a rocket into the house. And from the smoke and rubble came the dying, dragging the dead: the women and children the Taliban had herded into the compound. Joseph sagged against a wall, horrified and sobbing at the sight. For Joseph, it was a classic moral injury.
emember "Rumplestiltskin"? An impish man offers to help a girl with the . impossible chore she's been tasked with: spinning heaps of straw into gold. It's a story that's likely to give independent women the jitters; living beholden to a demanding king and a conniving mythical creature is no one's idea of romance.
The phrase "down bad" has taken on a life of its own on social media. People seem to be using it in a myriad of ways, but the spirit of the term is to yearn. Urban Dictionary defines "down bad" as ...