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Word: bomb (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second down and long, Yohe found Tony Hinz across the middle for an eight-yard gain, setting up 3rd-and-three. A Yohe bomb fell out of reach and Hall was called on to punt again. Dartmouth took over at its own 13 with 6:40 left. Two running plays up the middle went for seven yards, giving Rorke and crew 3rd-and-three. Rorke gave the Green a first down by hitting Chris Keck, a hefty tight-end, over the middle...

Author: By Geoffrey Simon, | Title: Gridders Turn Green Black and Blue | 10/17/1987 | See Source »

Judd (19 carries for 147 yards, three touchdowns) opened the scoring when he scampered 58 yards on the game's second play from scrimmage. Five plays later, Jason hooked up with brother John (three receptions for 90 yards) on a fly pattern for a 74-yd. scoring bomb...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: It's a Record! Lions Drop 35th Straight | 10/13/1987 | See Source »

...Belfast the nightmare began in the late 1960s, when the long political conflict involving pro-British Protestants and Catholic nationalists turned violent. The gun battles and bombings of the 1970s reduced whole blocks to rubble, and some neighborhoods became deadly "no-go" zones, where even Ulster police and British troops feared to enter. When at last the violence began to subside in 1982, Britain backed a major face-lift for the blighted city. Crumbling old slums and bomb sites were rebuilt as part of a $1.4 billion housing program for low-income districts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Northern Ireland A Different Kind of Terror | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

...siphoned off millions of dollars from the reconstruction to finance their continuing war. As money for new construction pours into Belfast, paramilitary forces on both sides demand a cut of the profits. This Ulster Mafia exacts its levies from local businesses, and if people do not pay up, a bomb or a shot in the night may follow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Northern Ireland A Different Kind of Terror | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

Contra leader Adolfo Calero is no stranger to the violent violation of free speech. In fact, he stands accused in an assassination attempt on Eden Pastora. On May 30, 1984 a bomb exploded at a public press conference in La Penca, Nicaragua called by dissident contra leader Eden Pastora (a.k.a. Commandante Zero). Eight people were killed including three international journalists. Many other reporters were mutilated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Calero | 10/8/1987 | See Source »

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