Word: manly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Anderson's land proceeds without delay. Malone pulls the truck through an opening in the bushes and turns the rig around in front of the burned remains of the old house. "I think you should move it a little more away from the power line," the Mississippi Power & Light man warns Malone as he checks the house's positioning. Towner calls Anderson over to the front. "Do you like it here?" he asks. She looks up and down the building's length and along its sides and then responds with a simple...
Dresden party chief. Well in tune with citizens' frustrations, he is regarded as the man most likely to bring about Soviet-style reforms. Last week he called for "deep change" and "comprehensive renewal in industry and science, society, art and culture...
Shortly after 6 a.m. on Saturday an engineer climbed into the newly exposed space to evaluate the test. He was astonished: something had moved inside a silver Chevrolet Sprint. Excited rescuers crawled cautiously closer. They found a man, alive and semiconscious, still strapped into the front seat. When a paramedic shouted, the man moved his head. Struggling gingerly for five hours, they extricated Buck Helm, 57, a shipping clerk, who managed to wave an arm as he was lifted to a waiting ambulance amid the cheers of exultant searchers. His condition was described as critical but stable. He had survived...
...Krenz is the youngest member of the Politburo. He is also among the members most widely distrusted and reviled by citizens. Rumors circulate about both his drinking and his health. "This man is a technician of power, a man of the central party machine," said Fred Oldenburg, a senior analyst with the Federal Institute for East European and International Studies in Cologne. East Germans mockingly call Krenz a "professional youth" because he has continued to dabble in youth affairs despite his age, organizing and attending rock concerts that are intended to pacify restless youngsters. A West German television crew, interviewing...
...well-drilled 585-man fire department proved all but useless: broken mains left the city without water. Scattered blazes soon converged into fire storms that gobbled up huge swaths of the city. The inferno spread despite desperate attempts to create firebreaks by dynamiting whole blocks of homes and businesses. Writer Jack London, who lived in Sonoma County, said what everyone saw: "I knew it was all doomed...