Word: tensely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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You overlooked America's forgotten railways as an alternative to crowded highways. Tens of thousands of miles of underutilized railroads could be transformed into medium- to high-speed transportation networks, particularly in the Northeast, Midwest and Sunbelt. Similarly, the great railway capillary systems of cities like Houston, Los Angeles and...
The huge outpouring of tens of thousands of favorable telegrams from people across the country provided the first tangible evidence that North had a following. North's wife sat quietly throughout the hearings, clutching a large stack of the yellow telegrams, occasionally thumbing through them to read words of encouragement...
"My sincerest wish is for Lee Han Yol to become the last person to die violently for the cause of democracy in our country." So said Opposition Leader Kim Young Sam last week following the death of the Yonsei University sophomore in Seoul. Lee, 20, had remained in a coma...
In referring to the death of the last Dusky Seaside Sparrow, you say the birds "stubbornly refused to move" when their habitat was destroyed by developers ((NATION, June 29)). You make it sound as if their extinction was the poor birds' fault. Over the ages, those little sparrows managed to...
There is the one about the drivers who sneak into the lane reserved for car pools by planting inflated dummies in the passenger seats. And the pregnant woman who successfully argued in court that she and her fetus were entitled to use the car-pool lane because they were separate...