Word: victor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...block the election of left-leaning presidential Candidate Hernan Siles Zuazo, who had won a plurality of the popular vote last month and appeared assured of victory in a congressional ballot scheduled for early August. The coup apparently sent both Siles Zuazo and runner-up Candidate Victor Paz Estenssoro into hiding. The junta announced that Gueiler had submitted her resignation; at week's end she and her Cabinet ministers were still believed to be prisoners in the presidential residence...
Rename the parties the Democratic and Republican Leagues. Award the winner of each league a pennant. Declare the winner of the November stretch drive World Series champion (Why be so modest as to call the victor only "President of the United States? "World Series champ"--now that would show the Soviets...
Borg's closest call during his championship reign at Wimbledon came in the first round of the 1978 tournament, when towering (6 ft. 7 in.) Victor Amaya had him on the ropes. Amaya led two sets to one and had a 3-1 lead in the fourth set, but Borg came back to win. Says Amaya: "He looked as if he was spaced out, but all of a sudden he came to life. Sometimes he seems to go into limbo, and then he wakes up before...
...that many of the typical husband's attitudes-which are not exactly unknown in the West-are signs of disguised aggressiveness. In effect, the man is saying, "You're so free and capable, why don't you handle the chores for both of us?" Nonetheless, reports Victor Perevedentsev, a specialist on socioeconomic affairs in Moscow, the Soviet family is slowly changing from a patriarchy into a "biarchy"-equality in the home. Says he: "Women are rebelling, and they, of course, are correct in doing...
Once a book has been forced into exile, its author often follows. Solzhenitsyn was ostentatiously deported in 1974, while Andrei Sinyavsky, Joseph Brodsky, Victor Nekrasov, Anatoli Gladilin, Yuz Aleshkovsky and others were pressured in various ways to emigrate. Vladimir Voinovich, the author of The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, a samizdat favorite published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1977, was warned by the Soviet authorities in March that his life would become "intolerable" unless he left the Soviet Union...