Example sentences for: nicaraguan

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  • Chosen under the auspices of the center's director, historian Peter Gay, the fellows include cultural critic Paul Berman, at work on a literary and political history of the Nicaraguan revolution; technology historian Gregory Dreicer, who will study the architecture of racial segregation; and historian Marion Kaplan, who studies the daily life of Jews in Nazi Germany.

  • These days, the average Nicaraguan official would stand on his head and eat a bug if that would entice a foreign reporter to do an interview.

  • Years ago he composed a screenplay described as a "cinematographic narrative," about a real-life mass kidnapping of members of the Nicaraguan elite by the leftist Sandinista guerrillas in 1974, during the time of the Somoza dictatorship.

  • The subject was the newspaper's controversial series of last August, "Dark Alliance," which alleged that the CIA had promoted the sale of crack cocaine to Americans as part of the U.S. government's support of the Nicaraguan Contras in the 1980s.

  • The NYT reports that mudslides were a big killer, quoting a Nicaraguan rescue worker saying he could do nothing for the people buried in the debris he could hear begging for help.


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