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Word: lima (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lima's commuters were heading home at 7:30 p.m. when the city was rocked by a series of detonations so powerful that they rattled office windows 15 miles away. As seven high-tension pylons collapsed in the dynamite explosion, lights in the Peruvian capital (pop. 5 million) flickered, then failed. In the darkness, terrified inhabitants were shaken by 20 more blasts, including one that gutted a Bayer pharmaceutical factory, causing more than $100 million in property damage. It could have been much worse: police later discovered a mortar hidden under a bridge in range of the downtown Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peru: Risky Path | 6/13/1983 | See Source »

Although the assault on Lima was the most daring raid yet by the guerrillas, nearly 3,000 government troops and police have been battling them for months in their rugged Andean stronghold of Ayacucho, 200 miles to the southeast. In the past three years, skirmishes between the insurgents and the army have killed more than 1,000 people. Those numbers are now sure to rise: in a sign of the government's new sense of urgency, 50,000 police have been deployed throughout the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peru: Risky Path | 6/13/1983 | See Source »

...Babil Big toe Bisque and clam Bords Bites Broiled Brio Blowing Broth Clivage Bondage Butter Communaute Boots Canape Corps Butterd bun Canning Commentaire Chains Cauliflower and Derive Chastity belt Creamed Dire Chinese style Croquettes Droite Clothed intercourse Dried Echange Corsets Florentine Ecoute Dancing Frozen Emotion Discipline Identification Ennui Exercise Lima beans and Eavers Feathers Marinated Exactitude Femoral intercourse On toast Ketiche Feuille de rose Onions in wine and Guerre Florentine Peas and Imaginaires Foursomes and moresomes Rice ring Inter-texte Friction rub Ring or mousse Isotrope G-string Ring mold with sweetbreads Langue Gadgets and Gimnicks Sauce Lecture Gamahuche Sauteed...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: Saints, Proust and Baseball | 6/8/1983 | See Source »

...animals organized into phylum, class, order, family, genus, and sppcies, but even in this age of home computers it is difficult to talk about reading, eating and sex in any ordered manner. Inter-texte, Friction rub, Ring or mousse makes at least as much sense as Florentine, Frozen, Identification, Lima beans and. But the second should go together while the first should not. The tables of contents from Le Plaisir du texte and from The Joy of Sex are not only in alphabetical order but in page order. Dr. Comfort having decided that the logical order of sex acts...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: Saints, Proust and Baseball | 6/8/1983 | See Source »

...most recent attack? Probably because elders from Lucanamarca traveled 90 miles to Ayacucho last month to petition the government for police protection against the Senderistas. Nothing came of the appeal except savage retribution from the very men the villagers feared. Sums up Enrique Zileri Gibson, director of Lima's leading newsmagazine, Caretas: "It is a strategy of terror designed to show the weakness of the army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peru: Bloody Sunday | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

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