Word: fro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shots were heard and there were injuries. Ambulances were seen rushing to and fro," he said, quoting witnesses...
...nine days, often under heavy fire, the ships steamed to and fro as the great evacuation continued. By June 4, when it ended, some 200,000 British troops had been rescued, along with about 140,000 Allied forces, mostly French. British losses: 40,000 left behind, dead or taken prisoner. To many of the French, the evacuation was a British betrayal, a flight, the abandonment of an ally. To the British, it was a miracle and the only route to national survival...
Since he has completed only a dozen architectural works, Holl is best known for the dinner plates and candlesticks he designed for the upscale marketers Swid Powell. But in his buildings he has found a way out of architecture's tired to-and-fro between caricature modernism (the neurotic Rubik's Cubes of the deconstructivists) and caricature classicism (the pretty confections of the postmodernists). His best work combines virtues of 1920s European rigor and 1980s American charm, of Gropius and Graves. His designs tend toward the ascetic, and he is determined to invent, not simply revive old styles...
Senior editor Walter Isaacson is one of the very few Americans sorry to see the 1988 presidential campaign end. The to-and-fro of politics fascinates him even when the exchanges are as down and dirty as they were this year. For him and for the magazine, this issue charts not only a changing of the guard in Washington but also a new administration in our Nation section. Isaacson has been guiding our coverage of America's political landscape since 1986. Now he will concentrate on two formidable new projects: a full-length biography of Henry Kissinger...
...there is a set of principles and safeguards written into this venture that was not present in the earlier arrangement," Bok said. He added that when he denied the first proposal in 1980, he said that the school should look for solutions fro the problems he outlined and that he would consider any proposal brought to him in the future...