Word: eyewitnesser
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To tell their story of trouble in Nirvana, Hubner and Gruson adopt the usual techniques of the true-crime genre. Hearsay information is accepted as more or less reliable, and eyewitness accounts are energetically dramatized. Some characters are protected by pseudonyms. Others are fictional or, as the journalists prefer, "composites...
By contrast, her portrayal of political and military events bears the stamp of an eyewitness account.
The town and the gown met in the small hours of that Sunday morning, when two Cambridge police officers entered Adams House C-Entry to check on a noise complaint. Before the police left, a scuffle broke out between Fernando Marti '88-'89 and the officers. They dragged him down...
Reflecting Mikhail Gorbachev's call to report the bad news as well as the good, the Soviet media gave the event big play. News of the incident was first carried by TASS, within 24 hours. Follow-up reports included eyewitness accounts from passengers and reaction from shocked residents of Irkutsk...
Many areas seethe with bitter opposition to the government's conscription law, which requires two years of military service by all men over the age of 17. In Masaya two weeks ago, army recruiters dragged some 300 teenagers from their homes, according to eyewitness accounts, handcuffed them and, after checking...