Word: sectionals
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...been waged by students, who in constituting much of the educated, urban elite have mounted a campaign of public demonstrations similar to that in Iran. A few years ago students stormed the offices of the government-run paper The Rising Nepal; when its editors abolished their foreign news section shortly afterwards, they blamed the students for destroying the press that happened to print that section. During last year's ten-day demonstration of the banned Nepalese Congress Party, police killed a total of 25 protestors and arrested hundreds more...
...that some 400 civilians had been killed, and hundreds wounded, in the crushing of the uprising, which began with cries of "God is great!" and "Down with the Russians!" around the 18th century Pul-i-Hesti mosque and in the nearby Chahr Chatta (four arcades) bazaar in the old section of the city. Rumors in the capital now have it that as many as 1,500 people were killed. Most casualties reportedly occurred in a two-pronged move by the Soviets across the Pul-i-Hesti bridge over the Kabul River. Thousands of protesters were trapped in the narrow streets...
General Dynamics' version was cigar-shaped and very slightly shorter than Boeing's 20-ft.-9-in.-long trapezoidal model, with its almost triangular cross section. Both missiles are also launched in the same manner. Immediately after being dropped from either wing pylons or out of the B-52's underbelly, air-intake scoops for the rear-mounted engine pop open, wings slam out with enough force to cut a man in half, and the engine begins to whine...
Early morning winds sent the gas floating down a narrow, predominantly industrial corridor and out towards Boston Harbor, but a mid-afternoon wind shift forced the evacuation of several thousand from the Cross St. section of Somerville...
Quinn, who writes for the Style section of the Post, said women must recognize time constraints and be willing to set priorities. "Women should be prepared to face this dilemma when they first start out," she said...