Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ground was hurt, spokespeople for Colombia's Civil Defense teams said in radio interviews...
Morality, schmorality. This theory probably hasn't been valid since the school's early days as a training ground for Puritan ministers...
...married a publisher, G.P. Putnam. He manipulated the press to create an international celebrity. Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic and the first person to fly solo from Honolulu to Oakland. But if she was an eagle aloft, she remained a sparrow on the ground. Lovell, biographer of the British pilot Beryl Markham, can do little to romanticize her taciturn subject. It is only when Earhart climbs into the cockpit that The Sound of Wings truly takes...
...surprise, but it was also the scope and intensity of the conflagration. Until now, the F.M.L.N. has relied primarily on the traditional hit-and-run tactics of guerrilla warfare, never winning, but never losing decisively. By taking their battle to the capital, the rebels were forced to stand their ground in a more conventional way. But the guerrillas lack the equipment to rival the Salvadoran army's U.S.-supplied planes and helicopter gunships, and as a result sustained heavy casualties...
...judges looked for ads that broke new ground. The Ally & Gargano agency's Federal Express ad shattered taboos against making fun of the customer. One runner-up, adman Hal Riney's first Bartles & Jaymes wine-cooler commercial, scored with tongue-in-cheek humility. Another winner, Wendy's 1984 "Where's the Beef?" slogan, created by Dancer-Fitzgerald-Sample, became a political zinger in the hands of Walter Mondale. But as the 1984 election proved, even advertising has its limits...