Word: camped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bulletproof doors and windows, he killed two hostages: Saleswoman Ann Heilperin, 40, shot in the head, and Security Guard William Smith, 54, stabbed in the back. Beverly Hills police enlisted the SWAT team from the Los Angeles County sheriff's department, and the neighborhood was turned into an armed camp as the siege went on for almost 14 hours...
Reagan has become a fascinating phenomenon of American leadership and psychology. He enjoys an easy and sometimes mysterious communion with the American people. He has become a ceremonial presence. "America is back," he told us, as if announcing the return of a loved one from years in a POW camp. He gives America heroes--heroes in the gallery when he delivers a State of the Union address, heroes from the Olympics, heroes from old movies, John Wayne and Gary Cooper quotations in the middle of political speeches. His amiable being--the sheer niceness and normality of the man--seems...
Still, the antipathy of House members toward the Sandinistas outweighed reservations about the rebels. Since the March vote, many House Democrats had tired of Nicaragua's intransigence in the slow-moving Contadora peace talks. They were also angered by a Sandinista attack on a contra camp in neighboring Honduras. The Administration early in June disclosed that the Soviet Union had made a direct military shipment to Nicaragua, and in a speech last Tuesday the President starkly portrayed the contras as the only force standing between the U.S. and a "Soviet military beachhead" in North America...
Other divisions and subsidiaries around the country became involved in the program. Volunteers from Book-of-the-Month Club worked with inmates of the Camp Hill State Correction Institution in Camp Hill, Pa. Retired employees from the Time Inc. Information Systems group tutored adults at the Chicago Public Library. ATC Cablevision employees worked to improve the reading skills of city workers in Charlotte, N.C., and of adults in Orlando, and Southern Progress magazines "adopted" Lewis Elementary School in Birmingham...
...early 1960s pictures of the site appeared in a creationist book called The Genesis Flood, and the creationist camp seized on them to prove their contention that all species had once coexisted. The arguments were precariously based on the widely held belief that bipedal dinosaurs stepped toe first when walking, a conclusion bolstered by the fact that their tracks usually include only the front part of the foot and the three toes, with the heel generally faint or missing. At Paluxy, some prints are oblong and toeless. True, they are 15 to 20 in. long, but, argue creationists, they could...