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Word: ems (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decades, the pettiest disputes are settled permanently by gun or knife. In many cases the death squads have murdered people not for ideological reasons but for personal ones. In other cases, death squads have no role whatsoever. Rumors occasionally circulate about how this businessman or that official found with EM (for escuadron de la muerte) carved on his chest was actually killed by a jealous husband or business rival. Sometimes the only thing clear is that something unspeakably horrible has happened. In one incident, three soldiers were arrested for raping and killing a young girl in the provincial capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The White Hands of Death | 5/21/1984 | See Source »

...call 'em the New England champions...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker., | Title: Crimson Ruggers Add Ivy Title to List | 4/23/1984 | See Source »

...call 'em the Northeastern champions...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker., | Title: Crimson Ruggers Add Ivy Title to List | 4/23/1984 | See Source »

...call 'em the lvy League champions...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker., | Title: Crimson Ruggers Add Ivy Title to List | 4/23/1984 | See Source »

...except because this time. Hart says. "We owe 'em...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: An Ol' Debt | 4/14/1984 | See Source »

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