Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another military crackdown. "We will increase the punishment so there is a higher price to pay for throwing stones," explained army Chief of Staff Dan Shomron. A new kind of ammunition has been introduced: a round, rubber-clad metal ball advertised as nonlethal but responsible for nearly half a dozen deaths so far this month. Soldiers are permitted to fire supposedly less lethal plastic bullets more readily, including at the backs of fleeing protesters. Stone throwers can be jailed for five years, their parents fined $1,000 or more, their family's property confiscated, even their houses destroyed...
...revealing a sordid society through the most delicious light comedies." Women doesn't meet that standard; it's more like The Big Chill with a bitter taste. But it does have a plot right out of some beloved old screwball comedy. When the disconsolate Pepa (Maura) tosses a couple dozen downers into her gazpacho cocktail, she triggers a plot device that ricochets happily through the film...
...reasons: one, he doesn't mean it; two, he wants to leave open the possibility to change what he means; three, he fears a violent reaction from his Palestinian opposition. All three reasons are plausible. Israel should not be expected to cede one-third of its territory--located a dozen miles from its most populous areas--on the basis of such unclear promises...
More than 100 people supporting the execution and about two dozen against milled around outside the Florida State Prison. At 7 a.m. a small group of death penalty supporters lit sparklers and firecrackers and cheered, while opponents silently held candles and then held a memorial service...
Bundy, who grew up in Tacoma, was linked to three dozen killings of young women. As the execution approached, he met with investigators from Western states and admitted killing eight women each in Washington and Utah and two each in Colorado and Idaho, authorities said...