Word: sankes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...government time to put the plan into effect, Erman declared a two-day bank holiday Jan. 2 and 3. By midweek thousands of people had gathered outside the country's bank branches, afraid that the value of their savings would evaporate. But as the value of the dollar sank to roughly the same level as before the austral's collapse, the dollar panic seemed to subside, and relieved retailers began rolling back their hasty price hikes...
...officers for imprisonment or execution, deepening tensions in the barracks. In public, he sometimes appeared drunk and showed the telltale signs of cocaine abuse. Noriega supporters say that in December, in the wake of reports that Bush had authorized a new covert plan to oust him, the general sank into a deep depression. Under mounting pressure, trusting no one, he was fatalistic about his chances of surviving his confrontation with...
...over time, fewer and fewer Russians fit the stereotype of illiterate peasants on whose bovine passivity Czar or commissar could rely. Soviets were increasingly well educated and well informed, in spite of the propaganda poured over them. And while they reached political maturity, their leadership sank into senility. The people cringed when they heard the doddering Leonid Brezhnev try to form his words and when they learned that his hands were so shaky he had to eat with a spoon at a state dinner. They told scornful jokes: state radio, cynics said, dared not play any work by Tchaikovsky...