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Word: 46th (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...showed up again in its favorite city, Beirut. Rene Moawad, President of Lebanon for only 17 days and the embodiment of a fragile new attempt at peace, was decapitated when a remote-controlled bomb, hidden in a shuttered shop, exploded as his motorcade passed by after ceremonies marking the 46th anniversary of Lebanon's independence. The estimated 550 lbs. of explosives tore trees out by their roots, hurled the engine block of Moawad's armored Mercedes 50 yards, shattered windows a mile away and raised a cloud of brown smoke over the city. In all, 24 people, including nine civilians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon A Bomb Aimed at Peace | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

...sign in a steadiness of mood. There are not many emotional ups and downs in Diebenkorn's work, although he certainly does not feign his calm. He finds the world too enjoyable to be detached from it. Life in Southern California (and a durably happy marriage, now in its 46th year) has had the same kind of stabilizing effect on Diebenkorn that the Cote d'Azur did on his great mentor, the subject of his most impassioned reflections, Matisse. This is apparent in Diebenkorn's figurative drawings of the '60s, and transparently clear in the Ocean Park abstractions from landscape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Richard Diebenkorn's Drawings, The Decisive Line of a Master | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

...Reagan's 46th news conference as president, held in a White House East Room decorated with Christmas trees...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reagan Lauds Superpower Relations | 12/9/1988 | See Source »

...46th straight time, the racquetmen (2-0) proved to be the Engineers' worst nightmare. Freddy Krueger would be jealous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racquetmen Massacre MIT, 9-0 | 12/7/1988 | See Source »

EVIDENTLY, President Reagan gets warm all over when he thinks about the December 7 Washington meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev at which a treaty to ban intermediate-range nuclear missiles will be signed. Asked about the significance of the summit's being held on the 46th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Reagan recently said: "I thought to myself, wouldn't it be wonderful if Pearl Harbor day would become superseded by the day that we began the path to peace and safety in the world...

Author: By Stephen L. Ascher, | Title: Blowing Up Arms Control | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

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