Word: tensely
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Few have, for a vast majority of the tens of thousands of claimants have been wronged beyond any state's power to recompense them. Yet the slender thread of civilized existence often seems to hang upon little more than society's fragile agreement to pursue and uphold such...
Even the Tibetans' racial identity is threatened with extinction. Many have been forcibly sterilized to cut the birth rate, and hundreds of Tibetan girls have been compelled to marry Chinese soldiers to further assimilation. Children are sent to distant schools. Visiting such youngsters is out of the question, since...
Jungle Drumbeat. During a two-week orgy of systematic murder that fall, when tens of thousands of their people were killed and hundreds of thousands maimed, the Ibo tribal elders of the East lost all hope of reconciliation within the Nigerian union. Fearing for the very survival of their tribe...
Out of the tens of thousands of words that were filed by the correspondents, a 227-page convention report was organized into book form and transmitted to New York for Cover Writer Larry Barrett and the rest of the Nation staff to coordinate with their own notes. For illustration, British...
In the House, New Jersey Democrat Charles S. Joelson was not heartened when told that gun-control foes "could live with" the watered-down bill. "I suggest," he chided his colleagues, "that tens of thousands of Americans can die with it."