Word: returned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have to "return your seat to the upright position" when taking off and landing? Is it so the fat lady in front of you will get her body off your once-functional knees? What about storing your tray tables? Has a tray table ever flown up out of its moorings and smacked somebody in the face during takeoff...
While resumption of U.S. aid allowed the contras to return to the Bocay region, the area has changed greatly through Sandinista resettlement efforts. "Before they took our aid away we had many supporters among the civilian population here," said Renato. "We could walk around unarmed. The people sold us food, and we had many secret couriers. Now the civilians are gone. When the Sandinistas took our people away, we lost an important base of support. We have to walk days and days to find civilians...
...weeks later Greene and his staff made a surprise sweep of the corridors, rounding up 400 students who were loitering after classes had begun. All of them were suspended and sent home with letters requesting that their parents meet with Greene before the students could be allowed to return. In his first semester, Greene handed out 2,000 suspensions and ordered 100 transfers. Students got the message. By the end of Greene's first year, classroom attendance had risen from 56% to 85%. With a measure of order and calm restored, Greene went to work on academics...
Dewitt was pleased to note his return a mere two hours later--the boy showed real potential as a marathoner, or perhaps as a pizza deliverer. He was not entirely satisfied with the boy's choice of celluloid, however...
...Janusch may or may not have been capable of, leaving an incriminating print seems an act of carelessness out of keeping with his meticulous personality. Some friends have suggested that the former professor, disillusioned by his attempts to reintegrate himself into academia, became so despondent that he wanted to return to jail...