Word: spent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Salvador, the U.S.-backed right-wing government has spent the last two weeks battling leftist insurgents in one of the fiercest rebel offensives of the decade. Media attention has focused on the possibility of a rebel victory, allegedly presided over by the Soviets and their Cuban and Nicaraguan allies. No one mentions the possibility that the insurgents might be independently fighting to overthrow a brutal right-wing regime and to assert El Salvador's right to self-determination...
...just glad I'm not working," says Quincy House dining hall worker Austin Price, who spent last Thanksgiving tending turkeys. "The pay was good and all, but it's just the point of being here. You're just not really with the family--plus I miss a lot of football games...
...talking with a young couple across from me, and by the time I left they had made me promise I would call so we could meet for lunch again. They want me to help them with their English and they'll help me with Chinese. I've only spent time with one Chinese student, but hopefully that will change as time goes...
Leverett House residents spent yesterday afternoon in the cold after Harvard engingeers shut off the heat to perform one-day emergency repairs on the house's central heating system...
...fortress mentality is taken literally at Lindbergh Junior High in Long Beach, Calif. After a bullet zinged past the head of gym teacher Joan Reedy last year, the school spent $160,000 to build a 10-ft. wall to separate the rear boundary from a housing project and its gang gunfights. Reedy, for one, is pleased: "Teaching here is so much more relaxed. It's given us a sense of safety, and you can feel the unity of the school growing and growing...