Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...read, JESUS CHRIST, HOW CAN WE BE EXPECTED TO CELEBRATE YOUR BIRTHDAY WHEN THE SOUL OF OUR HOMELAND IS RINSED WITH THE BLOOD OF OUR MARTYRS? Nervous soldiers in riot gear stood guard as tourists filed into the Church of the Nativity, built in the 6th century on the spot where Christ is believed to have been born. Troops with assault rifles and tear-gas launchers patrolled the market area, while soldiers ringed the perimeter of the picturesque hilltop village. On Christmas Eve, the heavy military presence combined with a cold rain to keep Bethlehem unusually quiet. Those pilgrims...
Throughout the week Israeli officials attempted to find ways to dampen tempers. In the West Bank, they closed Hebron University, a hot spot of Islamic fundamentalist activity, and several other colleges. A two-day shutdown of nearly 900 Arab schools in the occupied territories was extended through this week. The Jerusalem daily newspaper Al Quds, which circulates widely in Gaza and the West Bank, was banned there for one month after it published a picture of an Israeli soldier carrying a tear-gas launcher and fleeing from a crowd of demonstrators in Gaza. Two refugee camps, Jabalia...
...presidential candidate's withdrawal, newspaper headlines about church scandals, and shots of reporters mobbing the latest figure in a Wall Street insider-trading scheme. These disparate events were connected and given perspective earlier this year in a TIME cover story, "What Ever Happened to Ethics." A third spot will show how TIME went beyond the headlines of the Wall Street crash to examine America's leadership crisis...
...East Wing of the White House was waging cold war while the West Wing celebrated a thaw, the rest of Washington found Raisa Maximovna Gorbachev dazzling. Vivacious and voluble, she beamed her strobe-light smile, melting the eye glaze of receiving lines. She asked questions and delivered on-the- spot sermons and exhortations. She cracked jokes. And, rivaling her husband, she tamed the media like the tiger handler at the Gorky Park circus: with flourishes, grins and bows to the audience...
...picked number 13 because, well, no Harvard player had worn that number for years. I would slip into the spot vacated by the team and cheer them on to victory...