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Berlin Wall
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  • His car has been the target of more vandalism than the Berlin Wall in the two years since he unveiled it, but Steve is an excellent body and fender man, and he just drags it down to his uncle's shop, pounds out the dents, and repaints it.†  (source)
  • It's the story of the world!" he always said, when the rest of us complained about having to watch yet another show about the Third Reich, the fall of the Berlin Wall, or the Great Pyramids.†  (source)
  • Or NATO and Europe and the East Bloc and the Berlin Wall.†  (source)
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  • You remember those days: everyone was so optimistic when the Berlin Wall came down.†  (source)
  • But nothing—not the Bay of Pigs, not civil rights, not the Berlin Wall—can even remotely compare to this.†  (source)
  • A month later, the Berlin Wall fell.†  (source)
  • "I never fired a gun at anyone," Mortenson says, "but this was before the Berlin Wall fell and we spent a lot of time looking through our M-16 scopes at the East German guards."†  (source)
  • I stood recently at Checkpoint Charlie and I saw where the Berlin Wall had once been, where millions had lived in slavery only twenty years ago, and I realized that it could happen again.†  (source)
  • I told him that Africa wasn't going to be saved or won by promoting the poems of Yevtushenko or by telling the people about the wickedness of the Berlin Wall.†  (source)
  • But by the time the Berlin Wall comes down, so have the walls in her academic life, and she has slowly won over most of her colleagues with her sensible demeanor and disarming sociability.†  (source)
  • Kennedy refused to back down, and a chastened Khrushchev began construction of the Berlin Wall to save face.†  (source)
  • To Berliners, whose city is the present capital of Germany and perhaps the future capital of Europe, Plauen is a sleepy backwater that sat for decades on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall.†  (source)
  • But the fall of the Berlin Wall had thrown Gorbachev out of power and left him in a precarious financial condition.†  (source)
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