Word: tensing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Seniors entering the job market this spring may be competing with other "graduates" who have never gone to college. Their alma matters are "diploma mills" which the FBI suspects have sold tens of thousands of phony degrees throughout the country.
Hiroshima had once harbored 344,000 people. Reconnaissance photographs showed 4.1 square miles-60% of the city's built-up area-destroyed by fire and blast. There was no crater in which the blast effect would have been largely wasted; the bomb had exploded well above ground. How many...
The march from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial, a distance of about eight-tenths of a mile, had been scheduled to start at 11:30 a.m. But at least 20 minutes before then, a group of Negroes started strolling away from the Monument grounds on the way to...
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. As crowds of worshipers emerged from synagogues at...
In the distant past, theological disputes between Protestants and Roman Catholics were, quite literally, matters of life and death. Tens of thousands of people died during the devastating religious wars of the 16th and 17th centuries. Sharp differences remain on some basic points of doctrine, but in recent years the...