Word: tensely
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Gilbert surged into the gulf after battering the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico with 160 mph winds, forcing tens of thousands to flee.
As rumor gave way to fact, it became clear that the former Belgian colony had suffered a terrible horror. Last week the Burundian government confirmed that ten days of tribal massacres in the verdant, mountainous communities of Marangara and Ntega had left as many as 5,000 people dead and...
Barry Bingham Sr. barely missed the unveiling of his own monument. After a family tiff prompted him to sell the Louisville Courier-Journal and other media properties in 1986, the former publisher put $2.6 million from the sale into financing what is supposed to be the world's tallest (400...
The first major quake struck early last week. In defiance of martial law, which Sein Lwin had decreed on Aug. 3, tens of thousands -- perhaps more than had gathered for any occasion since independence in 1948 -- flocked into the streets of the capital in response to a general strike called...
Moreover, you will find that over the past decade or so, the Soviet Union has enormously improved the number and quality of its conventional forces. The Warsaw Pact has particularly improved its capability for short-warning attack. Therefore we have a dauntingly long way to go in restoring the conventional...