Word: fiercest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government of Prime Minister Pieter W. Botha and formed a new, far-right political group, the Conservative Party. They accused Botha of straying from the apartheid precepts set by the ruling party more than a generation ago. The public debate that erupted as a result may be the fiercest within the country's white community since World...
...Roadways were blocked by burning tires and other rubble. City streets emptied, except for the occasional patrol of red-bereted Israeli paratroopers. As the turmoil spread, seven Arabs and one Israeli soldier were killed, dozens of Arabs and soldiers were injured, and hundreds were arrested. The demonstrations were the fiercest since the Israelis occupied the area 15 years ago during the Six-Day War, and the stakes were high...
...fighting around the Guazapa volcano was observed firsthand by TIME Photographer Harry Mattison, the only journalist permitted to accompany the Salvadoran troops for three days during the fiercest combat. Mattison's account begins as he boards a helicopter gunship...
...focuses his fiercest and most striking images--images that draw power not so much from their unexpectedness as from the fear and loathing they convey. The LSD-scarred businessman in "Thirty Spot, Fifteen Back on Either Side" stands helpless in the authoritative presence of a "jade-green reporter like a blade of metal grass thrust upright between the harsh lines of the grip's shouting..a hornet prowling the air." As she enters she checks a mirror, "parting her lips roughly with two blood-colored fingernails and revealing her teeth...
...usually sufficed, but not when homicide was involved. Nicholson's bestial portrayal, with the re-inserted punching and humping, helps explain his character's otherwise condemnable acts. He doesn't want to kill the old Greek; he has to. Logic, morals, and restraint are out. Survival of the fiercest reigns...