Word: junes
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Serbia. Kosovo. The names rise up like wraiths from the mists of European history, evoking episodes that dispatched the tumbrels of war throughout the Old Continent 74 summers ago, or paved the way a half-millennium earlier for the Turkish domination of the Balkans. It was at Sarajevo in June 1914 that a Serbian-trained assassin shot the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary, igniting World War I. And it was at Kosovo Field in 1389 that the Ottomans snuffed out Serbian independence...
...varsity rowers in the crew program, the Tail of the Charles is simply the end of the fall rowing season and the beginning of preparation for the main competition in the spring leading up to the National Championship Regatta in June...
...June, Thompson competed at the U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis where the two training centers faced off. Thirty people, including Thompson, who raced with the Boston center and whose boat came in second, were invited to another Olympic camp...
Contractors began working on the tower in mid-June in hopes of finishing by the start of classes this year, but a variety of technical problems delayed their work. They now say they are confident the bell will be in working order by late October...
Chew was one of 22 persons arrested under the IS in May and June of 1987, during a government crackdown on dissent. These arrests marked the first time in a decade that new arrests had been made under the IS, although one prisoner, Chia Thye Poh, has been held without trial since 1966 on account of his nonviolent political opinions. Chew Kheng Chuan and the others arrested with him in 1987 had never publicly supported the use of violence; rather, they were apparently arrested for their involvement in various church and student groups, community activities and peaceful political opposition...