Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when Seoul beat out Nagoya in archrival Japan for the right to stage the 1988 Summer Games, South Koreans looked at the event as a welcome opportunity to throw themselves an elaborate coming-out party. Invite the people of the world, and let them admire the economic miracle that had risen from the rubble...
Chun's Fifth Republic, based on a constitution written to legitimate his seizure of power in 1980, began to founder in the summer of 1987, when the President, coming to the end of his seven-year term, attempted to pass his office to a loyal supporter and fellow general, Roh, without a direct election. On June 10, 1987, while Chun and Roh stood hand in hand in Seoul's Chamshil Gymnasium, accepting the applause of D.J.P. supporters at a sham convention to nominate the party's presidential candidate for the bogus election that would follow, antiregime students planned demonstrations that...
After returning from summer jaunts, many travelers are looking back in anger at odysseys through jam- packed freeways, bottlenecked bridges and overstuffed airports. But gridlock is more than just an irritant: the jam- up is costing the U. S. billions of dollars in lost time and wasted fuel. It has even begun to influence where people choose to live and work. See ECONOMY & BUSINESS...
...summer weekends every year, U.S. and West European air bases throw open their gates to hundreds of thousands of spectators for air shows. The aeronautical extravaganzas are beloved by military officials as morale boosters and lures for potential recruits. The shows are equally appreciated by the public for the excitement, speed and spectacle. But all that glamour was blasted away last week during a few hellish minutes at the Ramstein U.S. Air Base in West Germany, about 70 miles southwest of Frankfurt...
...city temporarily closed the bridge. Result: bridgelock. As New Yorkers jammed other bridges and tunnels, the city's commuter rush expanded by half an hour every morning and evening. The Williamsburg was reopened in August after a quick $10 million patch up, but the relief is temporary. Starting next summer, the city will undertake a seven-year, $400 million project to rebuild the structure's decks, support beams, cables and access roads. Several of the bridge's eight traffic lanes will be closed for the duration...