Word: recurs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Images of the violation recur. When Berliners in the Soviet-run sector woke on the morning of Aug. 13, 1961, to find families sundered and the city rived by barbed wire -- and soon concrete -- many frantically sought routes of escape. The Berlin Wall was meant to halt a tide of migrants to the West that had left East Germany short of workers and threatened the stability of the Communist regime: more than 2.7 million had departed since the founding of the German Democratic Republic in 1949, 30,000 in July 1961 alone...
...Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze marked the anniversary of the Hungarian uprising by telling Moscow's new parliament that the 1979 invasion of Afghanistan had "blatantly violated" the law. By doing so, he implied that events like the 1956 Hungarian crackdown and the 1968 Czechoslovakian invasion would not recur. In addition, with a candor rare even in the West, Shevardnadze said of the controversial Krasnoyarsk radar station in Siberia: "Let's admit that this monstrosity the size of the Egyptian pyramid has been sitting there in direct violation of the ABM treaty." (His fealty to the treaty was in part...
...deficit narrowed to $8.86 billion in March, down from $9.82 billion the previous month. A day later investors shrugged off the news that the Consumer Price Index rose a sharp 0.7% in April because the gain reflected a record 11.4% surge in gasoline prices that is not expected to recur...
...Dogs recur as an important element in many of his photographs, and Erwitt attributes his fascination with the animals to their "anthropomorphic appeal." "Dogs are simply funny when you catch them in certain situations...But dogs [also] have human qualities...
...reasons why Germans--with barely a peep of protest--allowed Hitler to wage a war on humanity. If so, Jenninger recognized that it is not enough to remember that the Holocaust happened. It is necessary to ask how and why it happened so that such a tragedy may never recur...