Word: nearest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have been covering West Africa describe the chaotic conditions there with the acronym WAWA, meaning "West Africa Wins Again." To the newsmen scrambling to cover the sudden collapse of the breakaway state of Biafra, last week was WAWA and then some. At the moment of victory for Nigeria, the nearest TIME Correspondent was James Wilde, 1,000 miles away in Kinshasa, the Congo. He could just as well have been on the moon. Defeated by bureaucracy and the vagaries of travel in Africa, Wilde was forced to assess the situation on the basis of long experience...
...their laboratories since late last summer. In Houston last week, at a symposium sponsored by NASA, the lunar investigators finally took time out from their work to report on what they had learned so far. Their findings add a vast store of fresh knowledge about the earth's nearest celestial neighbor, but leave unanswered most of the puzzling questions about the moon's origin and evolution...
...struggle between the 200-lb. Czech statesman and his assailants began in the bedroom and progressed to the bathroom. There they finally managed to hold him down in the tub and stifle him with pillows. When he was unconscious or nearly so, he was shoved out the nearest window, feet first...