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Word: accents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard police are seeking Bailey for last week's incident. They describe him as a Black man in his early 20s who has an English accent and carries a Yale duffel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Con Man Shows Up in Denver | 3/20/1986 | See Source »

...tall Black man, going by the name Chris Bailey, who spoke with an English accent appeared at the Denver University Dean of Students' office yesterday morning, asking the dean to help him borrow money he needed to get home, said University of Denver officials...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Con Man Shows Up in Denver | 3/20/1986 | See Source »

...Yahk," cried the Barton bullies, gleefully mimicking the Andover, Mass. native's accent...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Behind the Brouhaha at Barton | 2/25/1986 | See Source »

...dilemma as seen on Pennsylvania Avenue was how to strike a balance between condemnation of Marcos' activities and support for the stability of an important Pacific ally. As a senior White House official later put it, "We're in a no-win situation at this point. If we accent the fraud, it gives Marcos an excuse to throw out the election. If we side with Aquino, it's a signal to her to take to the streets. We're opting for stability, that's the key word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going into the Streets | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

...baby-sitter, already an amateur anthropologist, enjoys watching their games. Available evidence suggests that the doctor was a pretentious cad and an ideal target for Simon's elegantly decapitating style. "He had, or had invented," she writes, "an aristocratic European background, replete with 'von' relatives, a faint 'Continental' accent that slipped when he was angry, forgetting that he was connected to a 'Statspalais' (as he called it) in Vienna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Girl in the Gold Borsalino a Wider World: Portraits in an | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

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