Word: lone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drive from the airport into the city, there were few visible signs of the revolution. A red-and-white banner draped on a building read, OUR EYES ARE OPEN: THE TIME OF THE PEOPLE HAS COME. At the modernistic executive mansion where Tolbert had died, security was minimal. A lone trooper stood watch at the gate, while a mere handful of armed soldiers milled around inside. At the seaside Ducor Inter-Continental Hotel, a sign in the lobby admonished guests to obey the dusk-to-dawn curfew. Its message: STAY OFF THE STREETS AND STAY ALIVE...
...Darling extinguished the threat--the lone Crimson rally of the day--by retiring Danny Bowles on an easy roller to short, preserving his shutout...
While Eckersley settled down and hurled near-hitless ball Tiger twirler Jack Morris held the Bosox in check until the sixth, yielding a lone fourth-inning tally on a Carl Yastrzemski sacrifice fly and nary else...
...lone score occurred at 16:45 when attack Celia Williams rocketed the ball past Crimson netminder Nancy Boutillier, who had four saves for the day. The stickwomen rebounded quickly, and one minute later, freshman Jenny White fired the ball into the crease for Harvard...
...service was held to honor El Salvador's most outspoken champion of nonviolence and human rights, shot dead during a Mass six days earlier by a lone assassin who was suspected of being an ultrarightist gunman. What turned the funeral into El Salvador's bloodiest episode this year was an explosion, either a genuine hand bomb or a "leaflet bomb" that flings handbills in the air. It occurred at the edge of Plaza Barrios where an estimated 50,000 mourners were gathered for the outdoor service for the archbishop. Armed leftist militants, primed for possible rightist provocation, apparently...