Word: eighteens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most dangerous of all the confrontations this nation has ever faced." According to Haldeman, U.S. intelligence learned in 1969 that the Russians had moved "nuclear-armed divisions" along the Ussuri River within two miles of the Chinese border. Aerial photos showed "hundreds of Soviet nuclear warheads stacked in piles. Eighteen thousand tents for their armored forces erected overnight in nine feet of snow...
...Eighteen months later, Chambers (then a senior editor of TIME) told HUAC that Hiss was a Communist. Not so, said Hiss, who also insisted that he had never known Chambers. But Chambers knew so many details about Hiss's life?including the fact that Hiss, an amateur ornithologist, had once spotted a rare prothonotary warbler on the banks of the Potomac?that his adversary was finally forced to reverse himself. Then Chambers made a more serious accusation: that Hiss had passed State Department secrets to him in the late 1930s...
...Eighteen-year-old Estey, who has been competing for five of his 13 years as a skater, earned his place in the nationals by winning two lower championships...
Pomme (Isabelle Huppert) is an eighteen-year-old attendant in a Parisian beauty salon, yet she doesn't like to wear make-up. Her best friend is Marilyn, an older woman who is frantically trying to preserve her attractive looks in search of wealthy men. Marilyn is drawn to Pomme because she envies Pomme's innocence; although Marilyn herself dresses elaborately, she gives Pomme a plain green sweater for her birthday...
...four, young Loret was placed in an orphanage; eventually he was adopted by a well-to-do French family. Eighteen years later, when Hitler overran France in 1940, he ordered the Gestapo to find mother and son, who had independently made their ways to Paris...