Word: curious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crowds of curious civilians blocked the highway and forced us to park the car about a mile from the firefight. The faces of the onlookers revealed a nervous excitement rather than fear. As we walked further down the road, the sound of machine gun fire became louder, but to our surprise the crowd did not thin. The multitude of people offered us a sense of security, so we kept on moving towards the battle...
...attitude of the people was much different than during the February 1986 People-Power Revolution, also centered around the two bases. The people that showed up at Edsa Highway during the August rebellion were curious rather than supportive...
...Latin American culture, politics and business, some of it conducted conspicuously with drug money packed in suitcases. This, in turn, has attracted a large number of state and federal agents, whose aims and agendas do not always coincide. Such activities go far to explain the growing number of curious writers who have fattened their frequent-flyer accounts with regular trips in and out of Miami International Airport...
Apartheid may shadow these productions as it did HBO's groundbreaking Mandela. It was shot last fall in Zimbabwe, where armed soldiers guarded the set. (The local office of the exiled African National Congress had been bombed six months before.) When curious farmworkers gathered around and learned that a movie about Mandela was being shot, they waved their arms and shouted, "Man-de-la! Man-de-la!" Recalls Woodard: "Zimbabwe is newly free and glistening with hope. Having South African refugees all around us gave the script new urgency...
Swiftly, silently, 16 trucks and buses rolled into Manila under the cover of a moonless tropical night. The curious convoy carried an estimated 800 Philippine army troops, all loaded down with weapons. According to a carefully laid plan, the vehicles split up and, as midnight approached, drove to assigned points around the city. Two of the trucks proceeded to a key location: Malacanang Palace, the headquarters of President Corazon Aquino, 54. Asleep in her residence about 50 yds. away from the main building, Aquino did not hear their approach...