Word: ils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...five minutes before noon on the fatal day, with German troops actually in motion toward the Czech border which they were to cross at 2 p.m., Il Duce in Rome rang up Chancellor Hitler at Berlin and they talked for 45 minutes. The Führer had received that morning a second appeal for peace from President Roosevelt...
...bottle when he told the pro-life group that an abortion amendment "was an integral part of our program." Two governments later, his Fein Gael Party drafted a proposed amendment, only to have it rejected by coalition dissidents in favor of an alternative advanced by the Fianna Fáil opposition. All the while, the struggle between the pro-and antiabortion lobbies took on a strongly religious character. Groups of nuns distributed pro-life literature door to door, and village priests denounced the amendment's opponents in hellfire sermons that occasionally featured graphic descriptions of how abortions are performed...
...three-year government" to bring some stability to the political process. Other parties, he added, would be welcome to join. His opponents immediately wondered aloud why stability was suddenly so important to the Socialist leader, but others supported the idea. A three-year pact, wrote the right-of-center Il Giornale, "would permit an exit from the vagueness of electoral rhetoric, to confront the programs and delineate the things to be done." A three-year government would also set a postwar record...
...Student Board of Education for Action, are opposed to Harvard University's usage of the name John J. McCloy for the new Kennedy School scholarship. We find it inappropriate that Mr. McCloy, who during World War Il opposed bombing rail lines to Auschwitz, gave clemency to German capitalists who used slave labor, and commuted the death sentences of convicted Nazi criminals, be honored with such a scholarship Most recently in a April 10, 1983 New York Times editorial. Mr. McCloy defended the decision to intern Japanese-Americans just as he had as Franklin D Roosevelt's Assistant Secretary...
...food (a raincoat costs around $32 and a black-and-white TV $160). Rents are negligible or nonexistent. Consumer goods are generally drab and in short supply. Only imported Volvos, Toyotas and Mercedes racing through the quiet streets suggest a world of plenty beyond the walls of Kim Il Sung's socialist fortress. But North Koreans do not publicly acknowledge that possibility. As one movie commentary put it, "Now where can you find such a paradise, good for people to live...