Word: ens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...September, the Cantabs closed out their season with a double-overtime scoreless tie against Yale. Between that season opener and last Saturday's season finale, Harvard often used sheer determination to overcome far more talented opponents and post stunning victories over the likes of Penn and Dartmouth--all en route to an 8-6-1 mark...
...them suffered severe burns or were missing arms or legs. Two victims were so badly burned that they were flown on to Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. One Marine, with burns over 95% of his body, died in West Germany, while another died en route. At the U.S. Army Medical Center at Landstuhl, southwest of Frankfurt, where the most badly wounded were taken, the patients said nothing or spoke in monosyllables. As the shock wore off, according to Colonel Richard Swengel, the hospital's chief of neurosurgery, "a lot of their fears and anxieties started...
These signs of hope on the economic front were of small help for the delegates at Bourg-en-Bresse. Said a Socialist Deputy from the southwest: "If I go into my rural district and tell my constituents that the foreign trade deficit has improved, they just look at me." Pocketbook concerns also overshadowed Mitterrand's assertive foreign policies, including the dispatch of troops to Chad and Lebanon, and the maintenance of firm support for the Atlantic Alliance. Such moves are quietly disapproved of by his Communist allies and by small factions of his own party, but endorsed...
...Administration was fearful that last week's coup had been inspired by Cuba or the Soviet Union. Grenada lies at the heart of vital sea-lanes, and Administration officials have long claimed that the Soviets plan to turn the is land into a strategic base that would threat en the shipment of U.S. oil supplies. In recent months, however, the Cubans have been urging the Grenadian government to seek accommodation with the U.S. to help ease tensions in the region. Last week they seemed concerned that the latest events in Grenada might give Communism a bad name...
...fantasy raised by the S.S. France, and first-class ocean travel in general, two decades ago. The diet wafers, the label tells us, are "the faithful friends of your ligne"-a word that means figure, but also shipping line and, of course, line, as in drawing. This elegant triple-en-tendre is meant to be read as a pledge of Parisian allegiance...