Word: mained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...neared the embassy, we heard a fusillade of shots from machine guns, semiautomatic rifles and pistols. Then came the thump of tear-gas canisters exploding and we were enveloped in a heavy, stinging fog. We jumped off and started crawling on our bellies toward the embassy's main gate, which a crowd was trying to burst through. I was swept into a group of about 15 people, who crashed the lock and surged into the compound. Suddenly several Khomeini men pushed through the crowd and began shooting in the direction of the embassy, apparently at the attackers. A young...
Providing a bit of that reassurance was one of the main goals of a ten-day, four-country tour of the area by Harold Brown−the first visit ever to the Middle East by an incumbent U.S. Secretary of Defense. "The trip is intended as a demonstration that the U.S. recognizes the strategic importance of the region," a senior defense official told TIME Correspondent Don Sider, who accompanied Brown. "It is our purpose to convey the reassurance that we will stand by our friends against external threats...
Since no party in parliament commands a solid majority, many politicians believe the only hope for a strong government that could impose national belt-tightening lies in a grand coalition between the two biggest political groups: Ecevit's social-democratic Republican People's Party and the main opposition, former Premier Suleyman Demirel's conservative Justice Party. In response to public outrage over the Ipekçj assassinations last week, there were some signs of renewed political moves toward such a government of national unity, even though Ecevit and Demirel are notorious personal antagonists...
...found in small concentrations in private galleries, or in tightly curated theme shows in museums, or in artists' retrospectives. Lately, however, some virtues of the 19th century salon system−for until the rise of the private dealer in contemporary art after 1900, the salon was the main meeting point between new art and a wide public in Europe−have become apparent. In particular, the salon was relatively democratic. Any artist could send to it and stand a chance of acceptance. It suited a culture with a vast pool of unemployed, or insecurely employed, talent. There were more...
...rises. Yet somehow it just doesn't belong outside a subway station. "The turtle and frog basin, Reimann explains, "attempts to combine creatures native to the region to provide one of several foci intended to organize a hierarchy of visual and participatory elements articulating the pedestrian area of the main plaza." Run that by me again...