Word: compounds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...schizophrenic Spartans then proceeded to compound the damage, splitting into three sections to perform the "M"--"S"--"U" cheer...
...mile away, in a seedy dock area called Wapping, deep in the shadow of the Tower of London, stands the imposing, boxlike building that is the new home of the two papers, as well as of the tabloids the Sun and the News of the World. Ringing the Wapping compound are surveillance cameras, fences 8 ft. high and thick coils of concertina wire studded with razor blades. The police allow only a few pickets to stand vigil at the gate, but some nights thousands of protesters show up to do battle with hundreds of bobbies, all the while screaming epithets...
...printers not only balked at a legal contract but continued to resist the new technology. The old plants, for example, featured a button for stopping presses. The Wapping compound has no such device, but the union insisted that three men should be hired to supervise an imaginary button anyway. When talks broke down in late 1984, Murdoch secretly began laying plans to operate Wapping without the printers. The publisher's New York office contacted Atex, a leading U.S. manufacturer of newspaper computers, and ordered a $10 million system. The equipment was shipped in unmarked boxes to London, where a dozen...
...several hundred American marines lost their lives in Lebanon when their compound was bombed in a suicide mission. They died for their country...
...embarrassing foul-up, however, was no laughing matter for the Reagan Administration. It is highly irregular for the White House to break the news that a foreign government has fallen, and virtually unheard of when the affected country is a U.S. ally. To compound that anomaly by issuing a report that was incorrect as well may be unprecedented. During the afternoon, when Duvalier was reported to have been seen riding through the streets of Port-au- Prince, Haiti's capital, the seriousness of the diplomatic gaffe gave way to a spirited round of pass-the-buck...