Word: laved
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hugh, trying to cling to their dreams despite the rude, awakening noises of Geoffrey's self-destruction. With Finney, they slowly draw the viewer across time and distance into an unlikely involvement with highly unlikely people. Some of the rich allusiveness of Lowry's prose may lave been lost in the process, but much has been gained in the way of clear meaning and emotional immediacy...
Over the past year, at least 90 citizens lave been killed by police and armed vigilantes; others have simply disappeared. The jails in Mdantsane, Ciskei's largest settlement (pop. 250,000), are often woefully overcrowded. During one state crackdown, police were reduced to holding 80 inmates inside a small room, beneath the stands of the central stadium, without food, water or toilets. Many detainees have also, it is said, been tortured or raped. Late last year the U.S. State Department warned Americans not to visit Ciskei because "public order appears to have broken down...
...customers. But if the Redskins were eccentric then, they have since gone completely crazy. Instead of laying off for a season, as Super Bowl teams are inclined to do, they poured it on. In 18 games since last January's 27-17 triumph over the Miami Dolphins, they lave lost merely two, each by one point, both on Monday nights. Scoring a record 541 points, permitting just 332, the Red skins are not yet esteemed at the level of past Pittsburgh, Miami or Green Bay dreadnoughts, but fewer complaints are heard lately about no great teams in pro football...
Richard Nixon, 69, on the nature of international diplomacy: 'You have to dissemble, you lave to recognize that you can't say what you think about an individual because you may lave to use him or need him some time in the future...
...scientific journals, Admiral Bobby Inman, then head of the National Security Agency and until recently deputy director of the CIA, worried in public about the Soviets' and other hostile nations' learning to develop uncrackable codes simply by studying published U.S. encryption work. But that fear may lave been misdirected: on the contrary, the real security problem for the electronic age may be that no computer can be made completely safe from intruders determined to break in. -By Philip Faflick. Reported by Russell Leavitt/Los Angeles and Martin Levin/Jerusalem