Word: flushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hanoi's frustrations sometimes flare into violence. Late last month, Vietnamese troops began their annual offensive in Kampuchea to flush out the estimated 45,000 armed rebels opposed to the Hanoi-backed government of President Heng Samrin. Vietnamese soldiers destroyed Phnom Chat, a border village sympathetic to the Khmer Rouge, the largest of the guerrilla groups, then pulverized O Samach, a settlement 70 miles to the northeast that served as an outpost for the 30,000 followers of Prince Norodom Sihanouk. During the blitz, however, the Vietnamese aimed their fire not only at the insurgents but at unarmed civilians...
...Vegas, a city where optimism is an occupational hazard, junketing television broadcasters were dealt a bad hand last week. The dealer, ironically, was the National Association of Broadcasters, a trade organization that usually touts the future of TV in royal flush terms. At a press conference during its annual convention, the N.A.B. released a study that resembled an elaborate good-news/bad-news joke. The good news: Americans are watching as much television as before. The bad news: they like it a whole lot less. "This study is a little daring for a trade association to reveal to its members," said...
Brutus, by contast, comes across very much as the brooding, thoughful central figure--an "honorable man" caught between considered morality and bold, heroic action. James Finnegan consistently understates Brutus's tension and growing disillusion at the havoc his revolutionary act has brought. Only an occasional flush, as he runs his fingers through thick curly hair or lets a nerve flicker in the corner of his mouth, reveals the turmoil written into the character...
...their chances in the ensuing minutes. With Blair out of position after a tough save. Providence's Steve Anderson faced a wide open net but couldn't keep it on his stick long enough to backhand it into the ocean. At the other end. Mark Fusco, hit the post flush five minutes later...
...mark in overtime, Dave Burke blasted a shot that hit the right post behind B. C. netminder Billy Switaj almost flush. And at 6:14, the game seemed to be Harvard's when B. C. 's David Livingston was called for momentarily bolding Tony Visone in center ice. But the Eagles survived the power play, covering well at both points and preventing Harvard blueliners Ken Code and Mark Fusco from launching booming slapshots...