Word: crushed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Third World nations, the countries using the money for unneeded and bloated projects--usually called "white elephants"--the quick reduction of capital flowing to these nations, and most of all a crash in the prices of products the countries export. For example, the 1985 crash in tin prices helped crush Bolivia's economy, and the fall in petroleum prices restricted the flow of money into Mexico and Venezuela...
...arms is part of the larger, thoroughly laudable, but often abstract exercise of fine-tuning the balance of terror so as to make it a bit more balanced and a bit less terrible. CFE, by contrast, deals with real weapons, things that actually hurt people: a tank that can crush bodies on a town square; high explosives not measured in kilotons but still able to destroy a building and everyone in it; and that most essential fighting machine, a young man in uniform afraid of dying and therefore ready to kill...
Back then I had this unbelievable crush on the girl who sat in front of me in math class, Wendy Hollocher. Wendy had short light brown hair and a button nose with dimples to match. Her figure wasn't especially noticeable, but then again, not many fourth-graders' were...
Here's more: Next Monday night against Boston University, the Crimson will win the Beanpot. Coach Bill Cleary will crush the heavy boulder that has rested on his back for the last eight years, and life will be good again...
...staunch anti-Communist, was targeted for his role in turning sections of Honduras into bases for the U.S. military and the U.S.-backed contras, who have been fighting to topple the Sandinista regime next door in Nicaragua. Cinchoneros leaders indicated they were avenging Alvarez's brutal attempt to crush their movement in the early 1980s, as well as the former general's part in the disappearance of 120 alleged subversives. Whatever the motive, Hondurans fear that growing political violence could turn their once placid nation into the Lebanon of Latin America...