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Word: bole (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pomp and circumstance was the order of the day at Addis Ababa's Bole International Airport as Ethiopia's Marxist President, Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam, gave a group of progovernment dignitaries a pep talk and then flew off for a four-day state visit to East Germany. But within a few hours of his departure early last week, a group of senior army officers were in revolt against Mengistu's rigidly Marxist twelve-year-old regime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethiopia Fizzled Coup | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

...Before the renovations, if a student drove a nail in the wall, it was one bole in 25 and no one got charged for that," said Fox He added. "We [now] mean business...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Student Room Care 'Unimpeachable' | 1/4/1984 | See Source »

...ballad. "Rock Lobster, blare. That isn't all: people are playing catch with beer kegs, tossing them out the third floor window to friends waiting on the ground. And that isn't all; inside the Winthrop House suite they are playing football, tackle football, and there is a large bole developing in one wall. When the House Master orders them to stop, they offer him a beer: when the senior tutor calls the police, someone hears the sirens, gets the idea there is a fire, and empties every extinguisher in the entry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bad Book | 8/14/1981 | See Source »

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