Word: tensely
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In their Christmas Day offensive, the Vietnamese attacked three camps almost simultaneously, sending tens of thousands of Kampucheans fleeing into Thailand. The resistance forces staged a counterattack, though they were no match for the opposing Vietnamese troops. The Vietnamese attacks were denounced as "contemptible" by the U.S. and as "cruel...
Navy Secretary John Lehman disclosed last month that the Navy had evidence that during the 1970s and early '80s Rickover received gifts worth "tens of thousands" of dollars, not only from General Dynamics but also from General Electric, Westinghouse and Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry-dock Co., all big Navy...
None of those precautions, however, were sufficient to assuage the fears of many Bhopal residents. Even as policemen bearing megaphones cried, "No danger, no danger!" tens of thousands of people left town in a hurry. Dressed in their best clothes, they packed belongings, withdrew money from banks and crowded into...
Having achieved that feat of prognostication, primarily through exit polling of tens of thousands of people as they left the voting booths, the networks belatedly seemed to realize that they had diminished the drama of their story. If the election was over, why should viewers continue to watch? The answer...
Reagan enjoyed certain immense advantages going into the battle. He was not required to fight for the nomination, for example. His campaign could use the long primary season and its federally subsidized budget for planning and organization. The G.O.R recruited tens of thousands of volunteers to put together the flawlessly...