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Word: basins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women's varsity sailing team flew past ten other schools' vessels to capture the Man Labs Trophy Sunday at the Basin near MIT. It is the first time in two years that Radcliffe has won a regatta...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

...farmer unearthed a strange item in the Syrian sands: a snarling lion carved from gray basalt. He dug a little further and found a ritual basin ringed with marching warriors and a banquet scene. The pieces ended up in the national museum at Aleppo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: An Ancient City Lives | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

...Force wants to hide 200 missiles in the bleak Great Basin desert of Utah and Nevada. Installations spreading across an area about the size of the state of New Jersey would require building 4,600 shelters and 9,000 miles of roads. Along the roadways, flatbed vehicles, forever rolling, would carry missiles tipped with ten warheads each. That is the $56 billion scheme for safeguarding the proposed MX system, a brobdingnagian shell game meant to foil a Soviet attack on the missiles. The plan has been derided as an ineffective, ecology-destroying boondoggle, and the MX now has a powerful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nix to MX | 5/18/1981 | See Source »

...Arkansas' Wilbur Mills began behaving strangely in public with an exotic dancer called the Argentine Firecracker. When he recovered himself for a moment, he told his constituents it all came from drinking champagne with foreigners. But then he landed with the Fire cracker at Washington's Tidal Basin in the middle of the night. Mills got hold of himself, acknowledged to himself and everyone else that he was an alcoholic, and sought treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Why and When and Whether to Confess | 5/18/1981 | See Source »

After ten days, and with federal approval, the scientists decided to let Physty go. But when they removed the net blocking off the boat basin, he seemed reluctant, twice swerving away from the opening. Thousands of spectators urged him on, shouting, "Go, Physty, go. You can do it." At last the whale was herded into the bay. Then, escorted by eleven boats it slowly headed out to sea. Two Coast Guard vessels followed it 4% miles into the Atlantic, watching it make three dives of about 3 min. apiece, blowing off its steamy breath each time. Then Physty was seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Squid Pro Quo | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

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