Word: weres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dropped were Helms' original limitations on artthat denigrated a race, religion, creed, sex,handicap or ethnicity
Not slowing in the slightest, Hugo fell on Montserrat, an eleven-mile-wide British island of 12,000 residents. Tin roofs were ripped off houses and nearly every building sustained serious damage, leaving few inhabitants with either shelter or fresh water. The wooded mountains that had inspired visitors to call...
Next to be mauled were other Leeward Islands. Antigua and Barbuda caught only glancing blows, but they were powerful enough to cause $37 million in damage. In St. Kitts and Nevis, more directly in the storm's path, ham-radio operators estimated that 99% of the population of 48,000...
The three-story building near the Kent port of Deal in southeastern England housed young recruits, some only 16 years old, who were training for the famed Royal Marines marching band. Last week their music was silenced in a deafening explosion that leveled one of the barracks and rattled houses...
Eighteen bombings rocked Bogota last week as the cocaine warlords stepped up their counterattack against the government's crackdown on drug traffickers. But the frightened citizens of Colombia were also rattled by word that Justice Minister Monica de Greiff had resigned her post, just two months after taking the job...