Word: speare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hard to fight a man, because he is as clever as you are. He has arrows and a spear. He is as tricky as you are. And besides, a person has friends, and if you kill him, his friends can kill you! It is more complicated...
...countless trips through the African bush, Missionaries Doug and Evelyn Knapp have, between them, survived hepatitis, malaria, typhoid fever, other tropical maladies and even an encounter with spear-wielding assailants. Their trials have not been in vain. In the past decade, a revival led by the Knapps in Tanzania has resulted in the baptism of 40,212 converts, 14,409 of them in the past year...
...merely redistributing existing assets. While refusing to promise that South Africa's whites would be granted special "minority rights" protection under a black majority, Tambo avoided the harsh rhetoric that marked his speeches in 1986, which the A.N.C. had proclaimed the year of its military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation...
Ironically, this newly gained stature comes at a time of deepening militancy on the A.N.C.'s part that would ordinarily discourage feelers from the West. Last January the A.N.C.'s military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation, in Xhosa), called for a full-scale "people's war" against the white rulers of South Africa. Having confined its guerrilla strikes in the past mainly to government buildings and military installations, the A.N.C. warned that now "civilians will get caught in the cross fire...
Boston's victory yesterday--whichmathematically eliminated the second-place anddefending division champion Blue Jays fromcompetition--was spear-headed by Marty Barrett(three-for-four, two walks, four RBI) and WadeBoggs (three RBI). Both players scored runs in theRed Sox' decisive five-run second inning...