Word: joining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stand in a sewage-clogged shantytown street just outside Luanda. The man has no right leg, the boy no left. As the boy hammers out a rhythm with a stick on a battered tin can, the man begins to swing his shortened limb in time to the beat. Others join in. Some waggle truncated arms, others hop on withered stumps. Soon nearly 100 cripples are shaking their mutilated bodies to the beat of the weird tin drum...
...contra rebels set up bases in Honduras for their efforts to bring down the Nicaraguan government, the country has found itself in a curious kind of limbo: not at war, but hardly at peace, caught in the line of a fire that it is unwilling and largely powerless to join. Now, with Washington about to send $100 million in aid to the contras, the reluctant hosts find themselves closer to the war, and more divided, than ever...
Another Crimson senior has moved on to professional hockey in North America. Goalie Grant Blair is at the training camp of the Calgary Flames, hoping to join Neil Sheehy '83 in the National Hockey League and in the Saddledome...
Even more welcome, Shultz said, would be "practical steps" by the Soviets at Geneva arms talks to "join us in the radical reductions we've proposed there...
...winning a Levenson award for outstanding teaching, Lee sacrificed time for research, and perhaps a chance to join Harvard's tenure elite...