Word: upping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"Suddenly everything started flying," said one of the victims of the hand grenade that shattered El Al's downtown Athens passenger terminal last week. "The ceiling seemed to fall in, and there was broken glass all over the place." Caught soon after the explosion, two young Jordanian terrorists proudly...
The Thais, who are nervous at the prospect of a U.S. stand-down in Southeast Asia, are as alarmed as Laos over the Chinese road work. Officials in Bangkok claim that China may be planning an armed invasion of northern Thailand, where government forces have been having recurring troubles with...
Raff grew up in the southern Italian village of Melito Irpino, one of those timeless, unchanging communities that hide behind hills all over Europe. Even there, he was something of an outsider: a U.S. citizen by virtue of his father's naturalization years before in America. The 30-year...
At 16, Raff dropped out of school for good. A young man who had never dated a girl, he found a job polishing and arranging fruit in a Seattle supermarket and took some satisfaction in it. But his failure in school, tugging remorselessly at his conscience, drove him to the...
So read the lead paragraphs of a 190-word news item transmitted by the Associated Press Sept. 6. It was a story that raised questions: How many civilians had been murdered? How had they been murdered? Why had Calley been charged only one day before he was to leave the...