Word: tensely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The orchestrated display of outrage was becoming increasingly familiar. As dusk fell over Chile's capital of Santiago, tens of thousands of people began beating pots and pans in a rhythmic cacophony. In the densely populated slum of Herminda La Victoria, gangs of unemployed youths defied a strict curfew...
Only 121 million acres, or about 10% of Brazil's arable land, is used to grow crops. Over the next three years, the Brazilians hope to plant 2.5 million more acres with wheat, sugar cane, soybeans, rice, vegetables and fruit. Tens of thousands of poor farmers are moving into...
Last week's mishaps could have been far more disastrous. The six-lane Interstate 95 is a main route for tens of thousands of Connecticut suburbanites who commute daily to Manhattan. When the bridge collapsed just before 1:30 a.m., however, only four vehicles were zooming over the affected...
The Siberian Seven, as they came to be known, were a continuing source of U.S.-Soviet friction. When one of them had to be hospitalized during a hunger strike and subsequently received permission to emigrate, the remaining six voluntarily left the embassy basement. Upon their arrival in Vienna last week...
He has about him the air of restless energy and dedication that is characteristic of the breed, but his interest was slow to blossom. Son of a chemist from Canton, Mass., Scott Holmberg, 33, majored in English at Harvard. Then he joined the Peace Corps in 1971 and found himself...