Word: nadir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case officers had to publish, so you'd recruit one of the townsmen to go out and pretend to get the news you wanted to print," he said, adding that when the U.S. effort reached its nadir, officers were ordered to stop reporting on the corruption of the South Vietnamese army...
...Dedeurwaerder, comes from Renault. Joining forces with the French was probably the only hope for survival for AMC, a lilliputian in a brobdingnagian land. With sales of $60 billion, General Motors is almost 21 times as big as AMC, whose share of the U.S. auto market reached a nadir of 1.2% last August...
...been able to comment on the purges. In one of its most controversial actions, the regime briefly shut down the left-wing Istanbul newspaper Cumhuriyet. Reason: the paper had reprinted a tough 1961 editorial criticizing reactionary efforts to subvert Turkey's cultural institutions. A military prosecutor charged Publisher Nadir Nadi, 75, who wrote the editorial, with "openly provoking people to commit a crime." The authorities also brought to trial Actress Isik Yenersu, who had read two poems by the Communist poet Nazim Hikmet Ran at a cultural event in Paris late last year. She was charged with "acting...
Perhaps appropriately, the one player still with the squad who can remember the nadir of Harvard hockey the took a year off) was named the MVP of this year's playoffs. Mitch Olson, who scored two key goals against New Hampshire in the semifinals, contributed the insurance goal late in the third period in last night's contest after the Crimson had nursed a one-goal lead over the Friars for 14 minutes...
What could have been the apex of Harvard wrestling history became the nadir of an up-and-down season for the Crimson Saturday afternoon, as the Big Red of Cornell defeated Harvard. 25-16, and all but clinched the Ivy League wrestling championship...