Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...third 500 we were still up on them--they'd get a seat and we'd pull ahead," coxswain Katia Rorer said. "Then in the last 500 things got rougher for us, and they sprinted through us. Everyone was a little disappointed, but the oarlock was a serious problem...
...connected to the outside world by a dirt road that winds past valleys with olive trees and shepherds tending goats. Red-tiled roofs of the village houses spill down the mountainside. Everybody waves, smiles. Pelopi is as famous for its hospitality as for what the Greeks call sovaros, or seriousness. In American politics that may translate into dull and dogged, but on Lesbos, sovaros is high tribute indeed, and the people of Pelopi have it by the barrelful. For just that reason, Pelopi's President Constantinos Stephanou says he foresaw a bright future for Dukakis even back in 1976 when...
...Simpson's quick kill was the first in a daylong series of naval clashes last week between the U.S. and Iran, the most serious military action taken since the American buildup began in the Persian Gulf last July. The action came during a week in which Iran also suffered a major military setback in its 7 1/2-year war of attrition with Iraq: Iranian troops were driven from the strategic Fao Peninsula by a concerted Iraqi offensive. Meanwhile a third drama involving the gulf, the 15-day hijacking of a Kuwaiti jetliner by suspected pro-Iranian Islamic extremists, ended anticlimactically...
Iran's setback in the gulf was serious enough, but the loss of the Fao was devastating. The peninsula, gateway to the Shatt al-Arab waterway and the southeastern port city of Basra, had been captured by Iranian forces in 1986. In a surprise offensive code-named Blessed Ramadan, after the Islamic holy month that began last week, President Saddam Hussein ordered the Iraqi Seventh Army, supported by elite Presidential Guards, to attack the peninsula's Iranian defenders. Early last week, following a successful 36-hour armored blitzkrieg, the Iraqi victory was complete...
...details emerge about the assassination of Khalil al- Wazir by an Israeli hit squad, debate persists over whether his death will deepen unrest in the occupied territories. -- An interview with Jordan' s King Hussein. -- Mounting its most serious military strike in the gulf so far, the U. S. clobbers Iran at sea. -- In Moscow, signs of a Politburo power struggle between Gorbachev...