Word: tenseness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sir / So the U.S. knew of the impending Chilean coup before it happened but did nothing [Oct. 1]. I marvel that we spent tens of billions to fight for "democracy" in Viet Nam, but wouldn't spend 10? for a warning phone call to the democratically elected President of...
The sirens began to wail while all Israel was observing Yom Kippur, the holiest and also the quietest day of the Jewish year. By tradition, tens of thousands of servicemen were home on leave; Israeli Broadcasting had shut down for the day; and just about the only vehicles on the...
> The public letter writer, Soviet Physicist Andrei Sakharov: "There are tens of thousands of citizens in the Soviet Union ... who want to leave the country and who have been seeking to exercise that right for years and for decades at the cost of endless difficulty and humiliation. You know that...
There were other diversions as well. Just in time for the start of the professional football season, the nation's premier telephone quarterback, Richard Nixon, signed legislation banning television blackouts of home games sold out 72 hours in advance of the kickoff. That will enable tens of thousands of...
In the middle were tens of millions of Americans who, while they might be tiring of Watergate, had not been sufficiently reassured to put their minds at rest. "I'd like to believe he's innocent," said Raven I. McDavid Jr., an English professor at the University of...