Word: dormantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Seen from the air, El Salvador is a stunning landscape of dormant volcanoes and twisting river gorges. That mountainous beauty, covering roughly three-quarters of the countryside, is also a national curse. With the highest population density in Central America (601 per sq. mi.), similar to that of India, El Salvador is a land that is ideal for guerrilla warfare but pitifully inadequate for the agricultural needs of its people. Salvadoran geography creates some harsh problems: Who owns the country's meager agricultural resources? How should they be put to use? These are among the most important issues...
...chansonniers are back. Those uniquely French stand-up political satirists had fallen relatively dormant during the less controversial, more prosperous Giscard era. Now they are thriving as never before and playing to full houses in the Théâtre des Deux Anes and other pocket-size theaters on the garish lower slopes of Montmartre. If the audience claps with delight, it is not at the Socialist government's heavenly victory so much as at the sight of the great and powerful being ridiculed. "The French have always enjoyed making fun of their politicians," exults Comedian Pierre Douglas...
Voters will recall that the question of voluntary prayer was a major part of Reagan's platform in 1980, but has--thank God--been noticeably dormant ever since. But with the election year revving up into full gear, Reagan and his cohorts recently resuscitated the issue. This turn of events throws considerable doubt on the Reaganites' claims that all they are trying to do is to welcome the God "who loves us" back into the classroom. Rather, it suggests tht Reagan wants to shore up support among New Right groups in the South and Roman Catholics in the North...
...added. "Black people are not going to lie dormant in the face of apartheid...
...following the smoke signals of destruction in the dry foothills around Usulután's dominant landmark, a 4,700-ft. dormant volcano. Wherever the fires burned, 1,300 troops of the elite U.S.-trained Atlacatl mobile battalion were rooting out base camps occupied by the Peoples' Revolutionary Army (E.R.P.), the largest and most aggressive of the five guerrilla groups that constitute the 10,000-strong F.M.L.N. As Yánez made the rounds of the battlefront, he delivered a message of encouragement. "Your being out here means that the campesinos now have a chance to work...