Word: excessives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opponents of the regime were jailed. Eight weeks ago Lemus got too tough even for El Salvador. When parading students protested a ban on public meetings, his police responded with clubs, fire hoses and point-blank rifle fire; boys were beaten and several girls were raped. Horrified by such excess and fearful of total, bloody revolt, the nation's respectable moderates organized a preventive coup...
...does not deny a consuming curiosity about the papers' pension fund, which finances employee benefits unparalleled in the U.S. press. A Springfield newspaper employee of 30 years can retire at 60 at full pay for life. To support such generosity, Newhouse says, the fund has assets in excess of $17 million...
...poems, like Fledgling, try to suggest too much, and jumble the puns and images. He taxes my imaginative power, at least, with an excess of overly potent words like "comes" and "calms" and "court" in contexts in which his aim is never quite apparent. But all the poems are interesting, worked at with great care, and each finds reflections of itself in the other poems of the series. They are worth the time they take and, if such things can be measured in terms so crude, the fifty cents they cost...
Whitlock, who met with the Masters, claimed that the new restriction will not create a noticeable excess of student automobiles without a place to park...
...urgent study of methods for converting excess grain into low-cost protein foods, e.g. canned meat, powdered milk and eggs, for distribution at home and abroad...