Word: bolds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Salvadoran guerrillas, meanwhile, are boycotting the election campaign and disrupting it with bold attacks, principally on economic targets. A slashing rebel probe last week shut off a major stretch of the country's Pan American Highway and destroyed a key bridge, effectively isolating a third of the northeastern Morazán department and putting it virtually under guerrilla control. Displaying the same tenacity that they had shown a week earlier in heavy fighting around the Guazapa volcano, the guerrillas were able to surprise and tie down army forces with smoothly coordinated assaults within the provincial capitals of San Vicente...
...last week's battle action showed, the rebels are becoming increasingly bold. Their morale is clearly improving, while the soldiers' is declining, a major problem facing the army. Although the guerrillas are receiving equipment from outside sources, their success does not depend upon the quality of the rifles they carry. Indeed, journalists who have made numerous and often unscheduled visits to rebel units find that the most common armament is still a weathered carbine, and the heaviest a .50-cal. machine...
...little to lose have tackled hot political issues, while the major studios have ` to the tastes of their audiences. It seems refreshing, therefore, when a major Hollywood studio does come up with a movie that dares to ask some questions. Missing is such a movie. And with a bold advertising campaign, a pair of big name stars and vast nationwide distribution behind it, Missing may well prove one of the most important political films in a long time...
...while the memory of Bok's move to cancel the project is still fresh, we will bold off our celebration of the Fogg's long overdue good news. Two questions about that troubling decision remain unanswered and remind us that the administration's policies towards the new museum have always been impossible to predict...
...With a bold stroke, Ronald Reagan plans to make the U.S. one nation, divisible, with liberty and justice dependent on the vagaries of 50 states. Two hundred years of evolving into "one nation indivisible" will be wasted if the New Federalism takes effect...