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Word: alongers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...getting a woman who somewhere along the line misplaced whatever slight faith she ever had in the social contract, in the meliorative principle, in the whole grand pattern of human endeavor...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: Crippling Sensitivity | 9/22/1979 | See Source »

...conference got underway, there was some progress. A team of skillful mediators from the British Foreign Office, directed by Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, prodded the two sides to agree on an agenda for discussion. The British hope for settlement along the lines suggested in Lusaka: a cease-fire between the 15,000 troops of the front and Salisbury's 20,000 soldiers and hired mercenaries, constitutional changes to reduce special privileges for Zimbabwe's 230,000 whites and bring black majority rule, and free elections to install a new government under a more democratic constitution. They would retain some safeguards...

Author: By Brian L. Zimbler, | Title: Thatcher's Plan May Cave In | 9/20/1979 | See Source »

About 7000 security officers, including 5000 national guardsmen and 500 state police troopers, will assist in crowd control along the 20-mile motorcade route, Boston Police Commissioner Joseph Jordan said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Church to Pay Some Expenses During Pope's Visit to Boston | 9/19/1979 | See Source »

...laboratories miles apart indicate that these lyrics, taken from the album Fear of Music by Talking Heads, foster feelings of paranoia, confusion and even suicidal tendencies among the teens who listen to it. Furthermore, the snarling, guttural singing style of the group's lead singer--Mr. David Byrne--along with the hypnotic, repetitious, electronically treated music the group provides, could provoke listeners with extant mental imbalances to acts of violent destruction. The same group, in fact, performed a song called "Psycho Killer" on an earlier album...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Memos From Turner | 9/19/1979 | See Source »

...ever be anything of the same magnitude we saw 15 years ago," he said. The community is also concerned about the danger University growth might pose to access to rental housing among Cantabrigians of "all income mixes," Brewer said. "The character of the Square, and the pressures all along Mass Ave, are going to be another issue," he added, citing the zoning restrictions put on the Square last year and the debate over development in the southwest corner of the Square as intimations of that concern...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mike Brewer: 'It's Been A Lot of Fun' | 9/18/1979 | See Source »

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