Word: shores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...month, TIME has learned, the Soviets have been urging Warsaw to impose martial law. But the Poles have refused, arguing that such a move would almost certainly provoke a general strike. That, they fear, would in turn force the Soviets to invade. At the same time, Soviet efforts to shore up the hard-lining members of the Polish Politburo Stefan Olszowski and Tadeusz Grabski, also appear to be faltering. According to one well-informed Polish official, the two might soon be purged from the party leadership-if the Soviets allow events to take their course...
...signing of free-agent Outfielder Dave Winfield, the Orioles were quietly acquiring less expensive but perhaps equally valuable utility players. Manager Earl Weaver, the man of a million statistics and even more stratagems, gleefully analyzed his new acquisitions: "First we got Jim Dwyer, who can both pinch hit and shore up our late-inning outfield defense. He can play first base too, so that gives us options in the infield as well. Then there's José Morales, who batted .303 as a designated hitter with Minnesota last year. He can DH and pinch...
There he saw the stars and exchanged stares with the moon, but he could see very little of the land, which was just as well because he was gazing at the shore of an island that, three hundred years ago, had struck slaves blind the moment they...
...many black Africans, the U.S. generosity was an encouraging sign at an otherwise disturbing moment. It was an obvious attempt to shore up the government of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe-even though he is a Marxist-and it ran counter to the Reagan Administration's recently announced cuts in foreign aid. Still, the American pledge came just as the U.S. seemed to be warming up to white-ruled South Africa. The combination of events suggested that the White House was trying to reverse a policy that has been in force for two decades. The policy said, in effect...
Poland. Haig has spent much tune in his early weeks working out a strategy to deter a possible Soviet invasion. He has won general agreement from the European allies that breaking political and economic ties with the Soviet Union would be the appropriate response. How to shore up Poland so that it can maintain a tenuous independence from the U.S.S.R. is another question. The country is on the verge of economic collapse and needs $11 billion in new hard-currency credits to stay afloat, but Haig is unwilling to organize a Western rescue effort unless the Warsaw government promises...