Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Driving last week by downtown's Symphony Hall, built in the past decade to much fanfare, I was struck by its desertion. No signs up for upcoming performers; no banners announcing that the Symphony Pops would once again be held on a peninsula jutting into the bay. The symphony's finances were badly mismanaged; that is something everyone here seems to agree...
Their division saw a lot of action as it slowly moved up the Italian peninsula; but not all Harvard soldiers had such experiences...
...fired rifles in the air but retreated an hour later after South Korean border guards returned14 warning shots. North Korea hopes its latest violation of the 43-year-old armistice between the two nations will draw the U.S. back into direct talks with Pyongyang over peace on the Korean peninsula, says TIME's David Jackson. "For years the North has tried to go around the South and negotiate directly with the US. Basically, North Korea figures Washington is easier to bargain with than South Korea, but U.S. policy has been to insist that the future of the Korean Peninsula...
Technically, because a permanent peace treaty has never been signed, South Korea is still at war with North Korea, and whether relative peace can come about only depends on how its northern neighbor chooses to restrain itself. For the past decades, the Korean peninsula has never ceased to resemble a barrel of gunpowder which could blow up any time. Bordering upon each other are the two countries, both claiming to be the true representative of the Korean people, between whom there exists the widest and oddest gap imaginable given a homogeneous race and an identical language...
...remember, this gap has been created in a mere span of 40 years, even less than one generation's lifetime! And yet, the dark shadow of a second Korean War, a disaster which could possibly wipe out the gap by just destroying everything, is always hanging over the peninsula like the sword of Damocles...