Word: crowdedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yet as dangerously crowded boats continued bringing Cuban refugees into Key West, Fla., the incoming tide rose to nearly 31,000-and the words of welcome from Washington hardly solved the near chaos created by the sudden influx. How many more Cubans would follow, nobody seemed to know-speculation ranged...
The tedious waiting in hot and crowded quarters tested tempers beyond the breaking point. Fights broke out when some of the refugees claimed they had spotted Castro spies in their midst. More jostling occurred when refugees scrambled to get on the buses for Miami. National Guardsmen locked arms to push...
One new technique for teaching writing is something called "sentence combining." Instead of analyzing essays or mastering general principles, students learn writing and organization by building paragraphs from collections of dozens of related sentences ("The train arrives at the station": "The station is crowded"). One study of 300 freshmen at...
The main target was the rescue plan. Some critics charge that it was too lean and spare, with far too few men and aircraft to overwhelm the militants holding the embassy in crowded Tehran, pick up the hostages and escape safely. On the other hand, other critics argue that the...
After three days at Mariel, three of us took up the government's standing offer of a diversionary trip to the Triton Hotel in Havana. A Castro showpiece, the 22-story facility was turned into a luxury stockade for exiles willing to pay $44 a night. Guests were forbidden...