Word: offs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The violence touched off a mass exodus of foreign nationals. Somoza permitted a U.S. Air Force transport plane to land at the airstrip near his seaside villa at Montelimar, 40 miles from the capital, and provided an escort of national guardsmen, reinforced by armed U.S. Marines, to protect fleeing Americans...
The collapse of Amin's rule set off an orgy of reprisals by northern tribesmen, especially the Acholi, whom Amin's forces had been killing by the thousands for years. In one grisly incident, a captured Ugandan soldier, his arms and feet bound, was suddenly attacked by a...
For decades doctors had tried to divert air from the windpipe back up into the blocked-off pharynx. But such efforts inevitably failed; food and water would get into the windpipe, causing choking. In 1969 Dr. Mario Staffieri of Piacenza, near Milan, Italy, tried a new approach, inspired by a...
In an earlier and more decorous age, a crude word-even if uttered by a President-would surely not be deemed fit to print. O tempora, O mores! When Jimmy Carter told a group of Congressmen at a White House dinner last week that if Senator Edward Kennedy runs against...
Evelyn King, a housewife and mother in her 50s, says that she was already plagued by insomnia in infancy. By college, King was resorting to barbiturates, but still she rarely dozed off before 3 a.m. Her life became a struggle. Any activity before noon was agonizingly difficult.