Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Army, took eleven hostages, including the Turkish Ambassador's wife and teenage daughter. To escape capture, Turkish Ambassador Coskun Kirca leaped from a second-story window, breaking an arm and a leg and cracking his pelvis. He lay briefly in the line of fire until a police officer could drag him to safety. Finally, police persuaded the three men to surrender. The attack was an attempt to force Turkey to acknowledge responsibility for the 1915 massacre of an estimated 1 million of its Armenian minority. Said an Armenian community leader in Toronto: "The 1915 genocide has been ignored...
...City of Cambridge courageously imposed a ban on the testing, storage, and transportation of nerve gas agents within the city limits. Last month, a Middlesex Superior Court judge upheld Cambridge's ordinance, ruling that it was both "reasonable and enforceable." Yet ADL has filed an appeal and could drag the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court...
Divine is a female impressionist, not a female impersonator. His art begins with a taste for drag and ends with a squeaky voice. Since all things human are alien to him, he lacks both the affection and the understanding that might make his sexual satire work. Something similar might be said of his new vehicle. Director Paul Bartel and Writer Philip John Taylor neither know nor care enough about horse operas to spoof them well, although a few veterans of the form (Tab Hunter among them) know enough to keep their faces straight. The plot has to do with recovering...
...true extent of the problem, but almost everyone agrees that, despite phony supply-side arguments to the contrary, an increasing national debt fuels both high interest rates and an overvalued dollar. Aside from the fact that mortgage financing and business investments remain prohibitively expensive and will exert an increasing drag on the current recovery, high rates force the government to devote more and more taxpayer money to paying interest on the debt, thereby removing these funds from more productive uses. Furthermore, the major threat stemming from an overvalued dollar is that it makes American exports relatively expensive and foreign imports...
...company, blurring the distinction between adult and child. Suddenly we are oack in that interminable fifth grade history class, bothered by that hotshot who always knows the answers, scornful of the peabrain who thinks she knows the answer but then cannot get it out. The hands of the clock drag, boredom sets in. The dancers wriggle and twist, twirling their legs around their chairs in every possible expression of restlessness. The final deep sleep is roused only by a relentless, and all too familiar, bell...