Word: late
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...message was clear. Not only do these aging leftists disdain people who they feel are simple-minded enough to be patriotic, but they have yet to mature beyond the ludicrous late '60s assertion that anyone who salutes the flag or is proud to be an America is a fascist...
...Norwegian Sea, perhaps as deep as 2,000 ft., the submarine was running quietly and swiftly. With its tough titanium hull and liquid-metal-cooled nuclear reactors, the 361-ft. Mike-class vessel was one of the deepest-diving and fastest-running attack subs in Moscow's fleet. Then, late one morning last week, a submariner's worst nightmare became reality: fire broke out. The sub managed to reach the surface about 320 miles off the northern coast of Norway. As it wallowed, many of the 95 crew members rushed to life rafts and paddled away. A small flotilla...
Also promising but in need of a further draft or two is Crews' Blood Issue, an old-fashioned play of a family gathering leading to late-night revelation. The secret is tame by current standards: a man who feared his blood was tainted asked his best friend to sire his children. But the real problem is that the central character, who is a writer and who presumably stands in for the author, is almost devoid of particularity: his only trait is drunkenness. On the plus side were pungent dialogue, believable family conflict and forgiveness, and deft performances by Anne Pitoniak...
...Thus late last month began a saga that continues to engage the attention of the scientific world as rarely before. The announcement by the two chemists, B. Stanley Pons of the University of Utah and Martin Fleischmann of the University of Southampton in England, while greeted with skepticism, also triggered a kind of free-for-all as researchers rushed to re-create the controversial experiment...
After six days of intermittent violence and confusion, the streets of the capital of Port-au-Prince were still tense late last week. Rival military troops maintained an uneasy standoff after nearly a week of exchanging shouted insults and machine-gun rounds. As the country slid toward chaos, a state of emergency was declared, independent radio stations were shut down and curfews were imposed...