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Word: 2nd (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bearing an American flag. Both were dressed in camouflage fatigues, and Nicholson carried a set of powerful binoculars and a Nikon camera. They drove about 100 miles north to an area outside the town of Ludwigslust, the site of a training camp for a Soviet tank regiment of the 2nd Guards Division. The Soviets claim that the pair drove onto prohibited territory, ignoring warning signs in Russian and German; Washington insists that they stopped short of the base itself and that there were no signs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Deadly Serious Game | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

...Channel crossing is now done may have deprived Dover of its 19th century character, except in places in the town where history asserts itself, such as Dover Castle, still garrisoned on the white cliffs where Normans first erected it, and the Roman Pharos, a lighthouse tower built in the 2nd century A.D. These days Dover looks like any small, half-hearted New England city--a shopping center of a town populated by dolled-up teen-agers, and mothers purposefully pushing babies in strollers. Shops specialize in videotapes, computer books and Kentucky Fried Chicken. A memorial to the dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Where Is Our Dover Beach? | 1/14/1985 | See Source »

Pittsburgh 7, Philadelphia 2, 2nd game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

Chicago 4, St. Louis 2, 2nd game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 9/24/1984 | See Source »

Collins had discovered a secret weapon to get his tanks by Normandy's dense hedgerows. A sergeant in the 2nd Armored Division devised a way to attach to the front of a tank a pair of saw-toothed tusks, made from the steel barricades that once obstructed the landing beaches. These tusks could hack through a hedgerow in a few minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: D-Day: Every Man Was a Hero A Military Gamble that Shaped History | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

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