Word: worded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nicaragua's embattled President, General Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza Debayle, the week was one of gathering desperation. The communiques that flowed into his fortified command post in Managua were grim. From Leon, the country's second largest city (pop. 62,000), came word that a national guard garrison had fallen to the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN). From Rivas, capital of the southwestern district, commanders reported that a force of 700 guerrillas had not been beaten back. Managua itself was under siege. The sounds of heavy artillery salvos echoed through the bunker as Somoza's elite "Pumas," wearing...
...president is Adrian Rogers, 48, pastor of an 11,000-member Memphis church and uncompromising champion of biblical "inerrancy." The term means that the Bible's every word was God-inspired, so that as originally written the books were error-free in every detail. The standard summary of Southern Baptist verities, the 1925 "Baptist Faith and Message," declares that the Bible "has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter...
...papers to avoid using the word altogether was the ever circumspect New York Times, which last made censorship history by excising the word screw from a story about Carter's 1976 Playboy interview ("a vulgarism for sexual relations," substituted the Times). This time the paper buried the quote on page 26 and left a dash where the word ass should have been. "If the Times gives up its ass, it will have to be for a better story than this," chuckled Executive Editor A.M. Rosenthal. "I just think it was more fun not to use it when everybody else...
...actor, Wayne could only play one role- himself. They called him larger than life, and his ungainly bulk probably had a lot to do with that. He towered over Injuns, Nips, and Gooks. Most of Wayne's movies had one-word titles-McClintock, Branigan, McQ, Chisum, Stagecoach- so that his legions of addled fans could remember them. And his movies were all Black and White; Panavision never brought the colorings of moral ambiguity to these flicks. You were a baddie or you were a goodie; those who opposed the Duke were deranged sadists who frequently...
Maybe nightmare isn't the right word. Lorrie Hickey, director of housing for the summer school, did not even have a chance to sleep Saturday night, let alone dream. She and her staff were too busy getting ready for registration yesterday and today...