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Word: afternoon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good to see the Times back on sale again," an elderly gentleman amid a crowd of early-morning buyers at the Out of Town Newsstand said yesterday. Sale of the Times was still brisk by mid-afternoon, and one employee at Out of Town estimated that 2200 copies of the Times would be sold...

Author: By David E. Sanger, | Title: Newsstands Sell Times Rapidly As Readers Hail End of Strike | 11/8/1978 | See Source »

Most of the students questioned at the fire station yesterday afternoon said they voted for Hatch for governor but thought King would...

Author: By Miriam F. Clark, | Title: Voter Turnout Heavy Here; Students Vote for Hatch | 11/8/1978 | See Source »

...King this afternoon to come and reiterate his views, but that's o.k. because Frank Bellotti, the state's attorney general who is also running for reelection, has just shown up and he can give a speech to stall for more time, until King comes...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: You Sure You Want a Governor? | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...summer morning, over the objections of her parents, the young woman puts on a Greek wedding dress and marries her lover at the county courthouse. They soon move into a farmhouse on the estate. Three months later, the bride seems despondent. She is found one afternoon lying on the ground with a fatal gunshot wound in her head. A coroner rules that she has committed suicide, and she is buried in the Staunton Hill graveyard, beneath a headstone that bears the Greek words for Little Flower. Her husband moves to Hoover, Ala., works as a stockbroker, and then returns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Gothic Romance in Old Virginia | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...midweek John Paul spent the afternoon visiting his papal retreat at Castel Gandolfo, 15 miles south of Rome. The village crowds, accustomed to a more distant papal style, roared with approval as he stood up to wave from the back of his open black Mercedes. On the balcony of the bedroom in which Pope Paul VI died last August, John Paul told the crowd with a smile: "Our first meeting has been very warm, very noisy, and I hope very religious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: John Paul II Charms the Crowds | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

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