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Word: 71st (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movement and the country's best-known dissident. Police called Havel in for questioning last Thursday, then allowed him to go to a city hospital when he complained of being ill. Their real purpose was to prevent him from taking part in unofficial celebrations Saturday to mark the 71st anniversary of the founding of the Czechoslovak state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Three Holdouts Against Change | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

...under Czechoslovakia's Article 100 law banning most forms of dissident expression. Their continued detention may be the regime's way of closing down the feisty Lidove Noviny (circ. 5,000) as well as of warning protesters to stay off the streets this week as the country celebrates its 71st anniversary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA Anniversary Blues | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

...Forgive the present, Yevgeny Alexandrovich, but it's a precious thing nowadays," said a distant relative as she put a sack of sugar, almost impossible to find, on our May Day holiday table. This was in the 71st year of Soviet power, over 40 years after the war! And suddenly I caught myself happy with the small domestic predatory joy of obtaining, which for so many of us substitutes for any real joy of existence. The woman sighed and said, "Look what we've come to . . . And it's all the fault of our damned priterpelost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko: We Humiliate Ourselves | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

...Palandjian brothers, Peter and Paul, had easy wins at third and fourth singles, respectively. Peter is currently the 71st-ranked collegiate singles player...

Author: By Steve Li, | Title: Netmen Roll Over Owls; Prepare for Spring Trip | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

Then, in the 71st minute, Doug Dadswell turned super-human...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Dadswell Sparkles in Double OT Triumph | 3/15/1986 | See Source »

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