Word: tensing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--In one of the largest anti-war demonstrations held in Washington since the end of America's involvement in Vietnam, tens of the Pentagon to protest U.S. military aid to El Salvador and proposed cuts in federally funded social programs.
The club makes itself felt in races all across the country. Dedicated to the defeat of liberals, it issued tens of thousands of mailings to document the voting records of Democratic Senators on such issues as prayer in schools, abortion and sex education. Some of the letters draw angry fire...
From the instant of Columbia's touchdown, a moment watched by tens of millions of television viewers in the U.S. and perhaps hundreds of millions more round the world, Americans seemed to go into orbit themselves. "Terrific!" shouted Dennis O'Connell, a truck driver from Queens, N.Y., as...
Last summer China's central Hubei province suffered weeks of torrential rains that led to the worst flooding the country has seen in 26 years. While giant dikes held back the main torrent of the mighty Yangtze River, 142 branch levees burst, spilling water over the low, rice-growing...
Never has Washington seen such an army march down its old avenues.the soldiers clad in pinstripes and shod in Guccis. Not in all U.S. history have such unusual political alliances been formed as those now taking to the barricades against Ronald Reagan's budget cuts. From church basements and...