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Word: borneo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sail the boats in the tournament. Most of the professional fishermen are tightlipped men who grew up in the nearby fishing villages and are now in their sixties. One exception to this rule is a fellow named Norman who Zewinski befriended a few years ago. "Norman's a little borneo," Zewinski says. "He has the hot rod of the boat fleet, a boat called Red Sun. One night we went into a bar with him and he ordered fifty beers...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: 'Ask Any Mermaid You Happen to See...' | 9/28/1978 | See Source »

...sides worked out a compromise. By 1983 Britain will withdraw what has become an anachronistic and embarrassing colonial presence in the steamy 2,226-sq.-mi. sultanate of 190,000 people on the north coast of Borneo (see map). Meanwhile, British civil servants will continue to handle much of the sultanate's affairs, as they have since 1888, when the tiny backwater country, which a passing naval captain had chanced on 40 years earlier, formally became a British protectorate. In addition, London agreed to keep a battalion of tough Gurkha soldiers in Brunei (pronounced Brew-nigh) until the sultanate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRUNEI: Hanging On to the Lion's Tail | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

Dales meanwhile was displaying a putting stroke sharp enough to cut teak in the rainforests of inner Borneo. He hit every green in regulation on the front nine and strung together nine consecutive pars...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Golfers Whomp Tufts; Lose to Amherst | 4/11/1978 | See Source »

...Getting the lead was a big factor," explained surprisingly strong defenseman Pink afterwards. "We had never really been ahead of a good team like Penn early. After awhile, we were really pumped up, let me tell you. Everyone was going Borneo all over the place...

Author: By Robert Grady, | Title: Laxmen Stun Eighth-Ranked Penn, 17-4 | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

...Philippines are an archipelago of approximately 7083 islands situated about 500 miles off the Southeast coast of Asia. Y' Ami, the northernmost island, is 65 miles from Taiwan. Saluag, the southernmost island, is 30 miles east of Borneo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: So You Think Hourlies Are Tough? | 3/17/1978 | See Source »

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