Word: tensing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Troubling her too is an imbalance she detects in the whirlwind of press reports. Among the examples she cited were the screaming headlines in local newspapers about peeling paint and other minor building violations in properties managed by Zaccaro, despite a solid endorsement of his record voiced by a New...
Roiled since 1982 by prodigious storms, the 30-mile-wide Great Salt Lake has risen 10 ft., its fastest climb ever, overspilling its borders and flooding the land around it. What was once the driest state in the union after Nevada is fast becoming a water wasteland: tens of millions...
The House measure would provide a grace period of 15 months to the 29 states and the District of Columbia that now permit the sale of alcohol to 18-to 20-year-olds. Any state that failed to enact the new federal standard of 21 by 1987 would lose 5...
Simenon confronts his self-engenreputation as a womanizer. He has in various interviews, the conquest of "tens of thousands" of women, sometimes at a pace of five a day. His message to his children shuffles the terms of his earlier boasts; "Never in my life had I had the idea...
But behind such problems there has been a worse one. A century ago, most educated people drew as a matter of course because it was the best way to remember what they saw. Great Aunt Lucinda with her watercolor set, earnestly dabbling in the shade of the Duomo, may have...