Word: ironic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...large-scale attack on the democratic institutions of Latvia." A contingent of Baltic lawmakers gathered for a regional conference in Finland went even further. Echoing the warning of Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze when he abruptly resigned in protest last month, they charged that Moscow's display of the iron fist signaled "the restoration of the power of dictatorship in the U.S.S.R...
...cold hand of war was once again claiming the capital. Next day a White House security man spotted a suspicious bundle, and suddenly the iron gates clanged shut. Pennsylvania Avenue and the sidewalks in front of the mansion were swept clear of people and traffic. Police cars, lights flashing, came in coveys until the package was found to be harmless...
...says Emi Spielman, who arrived from Chernovtsy two weeks ago. The 60-year-old cobbler is still recovering from a skin graft he needed after an anti-Semitic gang burst into his house in the Soviet Union last April, pinned him down and burned his stomach with a hot iron...
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Harvard Co-Captain Greg Tull said that this year's freshman class provided several good candidates. Richard Ou and "Woody" (a.k.a. Brent Lorenzen) were highly touted and Dave Bandy even donned the iron trunks in Florida over break in a scrimmage meet. But when all the votes were counted, the dubious honor belonged to sprinter David Osterhus...