Word: tenseness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In the aftermath of the terrorist assassinations by a group calling itself Forghan, few moderates were willing to speak out, for fear of being accused of aiding counterrevolutionaries. Premier Mehdi Bazargan cautioned against becoming "tyrants ourselves," but the public generally was still overwhelmingly in favor of the trials. "Let the...
It was a Washington week in which all kidding was not aside. While President Jimmy Carter was welcoming Japanese Premier Masayoshi Ohira to the White House, for instance, little maids from various schools, including First Daughter Amy, mounted excerpts from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, with its lighthearted...
Each team took a power ten at the 500 meter mark, but the Terriers pulled out to a three-seat lead, building gradually on the margin. Radcliffe followed Huntsman's strategy, taking tens and driving the cadence up through the middle 500.
Old and new--a change brings new relationships. Kirk now has to develop a rapport with cox Susie Peterson. "Ultimately, the stroke relies on the cox, to tell her what position the boat's in. I set the ratio of the stroke; but Susie will tell the women about technical...
In the process, the viewer should benefit. To be sure, cable TV may never win mass audiences for many programs. Its leaders have no intention of even trying to do so. That would mean duplicating network fare-and who would pay to watch something akin to the shows he now...