Word: dens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scene conjured up images of Daniel in the lions' den: former President Richard Nixon addressing more than 800 of the nation's top journalists, including some who had written highly critical stories about his presidency. Instead of animosity, however, Nixon drew long, enthusiastic applause from editors and reporters attending the annual meeting of the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) in Washington last week. Said Creed Black, outgoing ASNE president and publisher of the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader: "He gave a virtuoso performance...
...seems the place to be if you're a plastic penguin--or chicken, or duck, for that matter--is a lawn. Den Featherstone of Union Products, Inc., in Leominster, which made the penguins, said yesterday that large orders of birds are common...
...Harvard (how, Mike Doolittle. 2. Max Drake, 3. Austin Moure. 4. Alex Litvak. 5. Andy Hewley. 6. Rich Kennelly. 7. Gordie Gwynee-Timothy, stroke. Den Grout: cox. Ed Castro), 6:39. 2 Northeastern...
...World War II, East Berlin still seems to be digging out from the rubble left by Allied bombardments and the advancing Red Army. The old German Cathedral, a stone's throw from Checkpoint Charlie and West Berlin, stands charred and roofless, awaiting renovation. On the once famous Unter den Linden promenade, the German State Library shows the pockmarks of bullets and shrapnel. But the war and subsequent dismemberment of the country have also left deep psychological wounds that have fostered the growing sense of unease in East Germany about the present stalemate in U.S.-Soviet relations...
...Prussia and Saxony. At least 80 local artists and 400 craftsmen have spent four years and $120 million meticulously restoring the Semper Opera in Dresden, which was destroyed in an Anglo-American fire bombing raid in 1945. The famous equestrian statue of Frederick the Great that graced the Unter den Linden until World War II has returned to its pedestal like an old piece of furniture reclaimed from the attic and restored to its proper place. The sudden fascination with Frederick is the subject of a comedy titled The Prussians Are Coming, which is playing, appropriately enough, in Potsdam, where...