Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...elementary school there, tearing down the school that now stands in the middle of the old parade ground. The old fort buildings will be occupied by a fine arts museum, by civic groups and even lawyers' offices. But Vaughan wants to remove the outward appearances of the 20th century-the asphalt streets and overhead phone lines, for example-and bring back nearly everything except the bugles and the intense boredom the soldiers suffered 100 years ago when they were not banging up and down the High Plains or getting drunk in San Angelo...
Faced with such rhetoric, Preyer has lately loosened the gloves. Calling Johnston a "member of the radical right," Preyer says, "He wants to repeal the 20th century. What I'm concerned about is the 21st. "Johnston has quickly turned the phrase to his own advantage. Sure he is a radical, says Johnston, "the right radical...
Burns ranked ninth of 110 candidates on the civil service exam. The three Black officers promoted ahead of him ranked 20th, 27th, and 30th...
...Angeles used six pitchers from its injury riddled staff in trying to halt the Astros, while Joe Niekro went all the way for Houston to collect his 20th win of the season...
...prominent Polish émigré" says that Marx "would not believe his eyes" if he saw workers revolting against their Communist government? Marx would have quit even looking at 20th century man's feeble attempts at Communism long ago-after so many Stalins, purges, Gulags, 17th of Junes, Prague springs, Cultural Revolutions, democratic Kampucheas and Berlin Walls. If the "Communists" of Eastern Europe bore even a resemblance to what Marx had intended, I doubt that I and thousands of other G.I.s would need to be in West Germany...