Word: tensely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In the week following the attack, says the OTA report, those living near the targets would be "in a state of shock, with their lives disrupted and further drastic changes inevitable ... People would face many immediate tasks: care of the injured, burial of the dead, search and rescue, and fire...
Six times a year, high school students converge on test centers nationwide for a fearsome academic ritual: the Scholastic Aptitude Test, which helps determine where tens of thousands of students will go to college. In theory, there is little that students can do to prepare for the dread day, since...
Relations between Washington and Tehran, which have been cool since the exile of the former Shah of Iran, reached a new low last week. On two successive days, tens of thousands of Iranians marched past the U.S. embassy in Tehran, shouting insults and condemning American "intervention" in Iranian affairs. In...
Nothing has done as much to revolutionize treatment of serious mental illness as the development of drugs like Thorazine. Since their introduction about a generation ago, these powerful antipsychotics have freed tens of thousands of patients from the despair of mental institutions. Some patients have even resumed normal, useful lives...
Vins is an uncompromising Baptist. The trade that brought him and four other Soviet prisoners of conscience to the U.S., in return for two spies sent back to the Soviet Union, has presented the world with a new sort of religious witness. The stocky preacher and poet, who spent seven...