Word: tensing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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On the one hand, there were memorable eruptions of unprogrammed exuberance. At Manila's Baclaran Church, John Paul's mere appearance sent 2,000 nuns into a wave of near ecstasy. During a pep rally at the University of Santo Tomás, tens of thousands of students...
At first the party seemed willing to cooperate. King Juan Carlos had visited the Basque area early this month, and moderate Basques had been outraged at the murder of a nuclear engineer by members of E.T.A., the Basque separatist organization. Then a fortnight ago, a suspected E.T.A. terrorist named Jos...
With Raoul Wallenberg in Budapest by Per Anger (191 pages; $8.95) is a tale of transcendental heroism set against the flames of Eastern Europe. A member of the Swedish Foreign Office in Budapest, Wallenberg continually furnished Jews with false papers and helped them flee to neutral territories, sometimes only hours...
About 1.5 million cancer patients average 16 days a year in a hospital spending $9.6 billion per year. Doctor bills, outpatient therapy, time lost from work, and other disease-related costs put the annual cost well into the tens of billions of dollars. This total does not include the $7...
But Milne said yesterday stockpiles would be at most "in the tens or hundreds" of curies, and added that the shipments would arrive in specially lined lead boxes. "I would carry this material around in my breast procket," Milne said.