Word: fronted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Radcliffe Quarterly has a "new look." The December issue is glossy, with a full-page color photograph on the front cover and a slick print font. In the bottom right corner is a little box that reads as follows: "The Struggles for Justice: Indian Rights, South Africa; Democracy in China, and more; The Supreme Court on Abortion Rights and Affirmative Action; New Radcliffe Appointments...
Last week the troops of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) embarrassed President Alfredo Cristiani by seizing control of the wealthy Escalon district and then melting away again. As rebels burned several luxurious homes and sniped at slowly advancing government troops from windows, hundreds of foreigners and wealthy Salvadorans fled the country. The F.M.L.N. even carried the battle to the skies: for the first time in the ten- year-old conflict, the insurgents fired a surface-to-air missile at an air force jet. The sharply escalating violence not only raised fresh questions about Nicaragua's role in arming...
...British public's antipathy to the press was heightened last month when the People, a Sunday tabloid with 2.7 million in circulation, printed two front-page pictures of Prince William, 7, urinating in a park (headline: THE ROYAL WEE). That led to a protest from Prince Charles and Princess Diana and to the subsequent firing of editor Wendy Henry by the publisher, Robert Maxwell. Earlier in the year, the editor of the Sun (circ. 4.2 million) apologized in print for a story alleging that drunken Liverpool soccer fans had "viciously attacked" rescue workers after 95 fans were crushed to death...
...socially engineered complex of 700 homes, condominiums, shops and hotel rooms. His design guidelines, reflecting the conch-house architecture of historical Key West, run to 27 dogmatic pages: "White is the preferred and approved basic color for all structures." "Each single-family unit shall have a bougainvillea within the front-yard area . . ." What he is building is an enclave away from the trashed-out, mixed-up modern world, and he gleefully plans to earn a pile of money doing...
...what's this? Look, John Weisbrod'sdriving into the zone. He see's C.J. C.J. fakesthe shot and passes it to Vukonich in front of thenet. Score! With six seconds. You were wrong. Youcan't control them...