Word: disturber
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...power one year ago, Guatemala's President Efrain Ríos Montt last week declared an official "state of alarm" to muzzle his critics. Under the new orders, privately owned firearms are to be confiscated, political meetings are forbidden and nothing may be published or broadcast that might "disturb the peace of Guatemala." The government also reserved the right to search homes at will and to arrest anyone suspected of Marxist-Leninist activities. For the moment, at least, the general had survived...
...early 1800s, when Lewis and Clark made their famous survey (and hesitated to send off scouts by themselves for fear they might accidentally disturb a bear), at least 50,000 grizzlies ranged from Texas to Oregon. Today, as a result of hunting, poaching and encroachment on their habitat, no more than 1,000 grizzlies, if that many, survive in the lower 48 states. One of the largest groups, probably no more than 200 bears, form an isolated, highly threatened band in and around Yellowstone National Park, where their survival has been the subject of a surprisingly ferocious argument among...
...remains to be seen, however, whether such harping will disturb the planned congeniality of Williamsburg. Reagan is hoping to avoid the sort of highly publicized disagreements that poisoned the atmosphere at last year's Versailles summit, now privately admitted by U.S. officials to have been a "disaster." At that time, the falling out was over Western Europe's purchase of natural gas from the Soviet pipeline...
Still, if he wants to hold his own in City Council. Washington acknowledges he must yield to the beleaguered Democratic machine. On Wednesday he repeated a pledge that there will be "no shakeup to disturb people" in city government...
...Nicklaus-this prehistoric bear-is so gigantic that on meeting him, many people are surprised that he is under 6 ft. Is this the man who bashes the ball so hard and so high and leaves "bear tracks" in the green to chill Johnny Miller? "Don't disturb the bear," Lee Trevino shuddered, even when Trevino was disturbing him greatly. Watson was the first to come along who really thought he was the equal of Nicklaus, and he is the only one Nicklaus truly came to regard as a peer. Over the past six years, Watson has won twice...