Word: nearest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...special holidays, fruit and jam are added. The troops down their fare quickly. Reason: The last to finish must clean the mess-hall table. Soviet draftees have little chance for female contact. While they can leave base one day each month, many do not do so, because the nearest village is often beyond walking distance. Longer furloughs are granted only as a special favor or for emergency reasons. On rare occasions, a divisional command may organize "social evenings" and bring prostitutes onto the base...
Nearly as big as the U.S., this plateau is literally out of the world-on Venus. Though the perpetual cloud cover of the earth's nearest planetary neighbor has kept its surface tantalizingly hidden, Venus' veil is being lifted by a gifted robot. The Pioneer-Venus Or biter spacecraft has been circling the planet since December 1978, analyzing its atmosphere and scanning and rescanning its surface with radar. Last week NASA released the first renderings of these extraterrestial data, revealing a dramatic and awesome landscape still in the process of formation. Though 60% of the Venusian topography consists...
...they threw us out, tossing us from one commando to another in a chain." The S.A.S. also took the precaution of tying the hostages' hands while checking their identities. Four of the terrorists were killed in the attack, and a fifth died on the way to the nearest hospital. The sixth, a Khuzistan dockworker named Fowzi Badavi Nejad, 23, tried to hide among the hostages but was quickly identified and taken into custody. The next day he was charged with taking part in the shooting of Lavasani and another Iranian hostage whose body was later found in the wreckage...
...came from Harvard's field squad, where the season's two most consistent winners, Gus Udo and Tom Lenz, each won their events. Lenz left his competition far behind with a winning toss of 209 ft. 10 in. in the hammer throw, a solid 10 feet farther than his nearest competitor...
Something tells Earl not to give money and car to a total stranger, but "to have an outright enemy as one's nearest neighbor, when one lived at the termination of a dead-end road, with only a wooded hollow beyond, a weed-field across the street, was unthinkable." What follows during the next 24 hours suggests that Earl is right to worry. Bad enough that Ramona accuses him of trying to rape her and that Harry claims to be the victim of his homosexual advances; worse that Enid placidly believes both charges. Keese keeps throwing his new neighbors...