Word: mount
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...since a double bombing in July 1982 that killed four troopers of the Queen's Household Cavalry in Hyde Park and seven members of the Royal Green Jackets Band in Regent's Park. It was not the first time the I.R.A. had chosen the holiday season to mount bombing campaigns in English cities. Following intelligence reports from Northern Ireland, London police had been warning citizens that they had better brace for a Christmas blitz...
...were at work redrawing the region's boundaries. Faisal's sovereignty ended after only a few months when the French claimed Syria under a League of Nations mandate. To weaken the Arab nationalist movement, the French created contemporary Lebanon by carving from Syria the Christian region around Mount Lebanon, the predominantly Muslim Bekaa Valley and the coastal cities of Tripoli, Beirut, Sidon and Tyre. Even as they never forgave the Crusaders who overran their homeland, the Syrians have never absolved the French for taking territory from them. After World War II, France reluctantly departed, and Syria became...
...pledged to repeal a law passed by the junta last September that effectively pardoned the military for any role in the "dirty war" of the 1970s, in which an estimated 6,000 people disappeared. But a full inquiry would alienate the generals, who might later look for reasons to mount a coup...
Harvard was able to come within one as Kukulowicz finally ended a season-long scoring slump with three minutes left to play. But Harvard was unable to mount a final attack, and Maine started off with the victory...
...students were rushed to Mount Auburn Hospital, while the other two passed the night at Cambridge City Hospital. Their injuries included minor concussions, serious bruises, facial lacerations, and, in one case, a collapsed lung...