And as the band began a cracked but still-lovely rendition of "Une année sans lumière," with guitars glimmering to match the bilingual lyrics, Mr. Butler said goodbye to this year's CMJ Marathon.
On December 13 , 1981 Jaruzelski began a crack-down on Solidarity, declaring martial law and creating a Military Council of National Salvation (Wojskowa Rada Ocalenia Narodowego, or WRON).
On 13 December 1981, claiming that the country was on the verge of economic and civil breakdown, and alleging a danger of Soviet intervention, Minister of Defense Wojciech Jaruzelski, who had also become prime minister and then the Party's first secretary earlier that year, began a crack-down on Solidarity.
The government refused to introduce death penalty, but it did begin a crack down on the country's free-thinking blog community.
Washington has been pressing Pakistan to begin a crack down in the hope of averting a war that would greatly complicate its own fight against terrorists in nearby Afghanistan.
Hammond, whose 279 appearances and 14 seasons on the show are the most of any performer, rehabbed but relapsed in 2009, beginning a crack cocaine habit that took him to the streets of Harlem and some of its crack dens.
The bid for independence came less than a decade after Serbian forces began a violent crack down on Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority.
When city officials, acting on a tip, found that illegal immigrants were crowding into houses in a poor neighborhood here, they began a campaign to crack down on building-code violations.
Chemists around the globe began a race to crack the Spice code.
When the Burberry catwalk show finale began to a crack of thunder, and a simulated rainstorm sent water streaming down all sides of the vast transparent marquee while the audience watched from within, it was a fitting end to a show in which Burberry re-established an emotional warmth lacking in some recent seasons.
