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Word: brassey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with an automatic pistol. He fired one shot, missing; then his weapon jammed. Three quick rounds felled him. The gunman dashed to the limousine and began pulling violently on the doors, trying to get inside. On the back seat huddled Anne, her husband, and a lady in waiting, Rowena Brassey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Terror on a London Mall | 4/1/1974 | See Source »

...Laurel Brassey, 20, one of the country's best women volleyball players, competition on the San Diego State University women's team was too easy. When the president of the university ruled that for the first time coeds could compete with men in noncontact sports, Brassey immediately won a place on the men's team. Two months ago her feat was matched by Yale Coed Charlise Brown, who shattered a 122-year-old Yale sports tradition by joining its previously all-male diving team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SEXES: Locker Room Lib | 3/11/1974 | See Source »

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