Word: tenseness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TENS OF THOUSANDS KILLED, the local administration was preoccupied with such matters as a reception in honor of Asian Highway Car Rally drivers.
Investigators have traced all the bills back to three sets of plates of two tens and a twenty. A photo-engraving process was used.
In Washington, they call it the "welfare syndrome." Largely because of the work of groups like the National Welfare Rights Organization, which now has chapters in all 50 states, the poor no longer feel that any stigma is attached to applying for welfare. Tens of thousands of persons who were...
AFTER more than two decades of Communist rule, regimented pageantry has become China's highest art. To celebrate national holidays, the government often marshals tens and even hundreds of thousands of evenly spaced banner carriers and flag wavers. Schoolchildren throughout the country regularly practice precision marching (often with wooden...
Hussein has always had trouble with the Palestinians. Most of them are latecomers, forcibly grafted on to the native population of Jordan in 1948. At the same time, the country was inundated by tens of thousands of other Palestinians who fled from Israel. Of Hussein's 2,200,000...