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Word: caning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since then, the valley, eleven miles long and four miles wide, has been bulldozed into a flat green sea of paddy and sugar-cane fields dotted with hamlets. The valley has seen its population triple in three decades to nearly 100,000, of whom 30,000 came from Thai Binh province, southeast of Hanoi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viet Nam: Where France Lost an Empire | 5/21/1984 | See Source »

Teaching a group of musical-minded students Wednesday, Bowie exhibited all the color of a spirited orchestra conductor. "Loud!" he shouted, waving his cane in the air. "Play that stuff as loud as you were never allowed...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: All That Jazz | 4/6/1984 | See Source »

...best ways I've found to help one to develop," he advised Wednesday night, "is to concentrate on something simple. It might turn out to be harder than you think." Bowie waved his cane again and said. "All right, now let's have some B-flat blues...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: All That Jazz | 4/6/1984 | See Source »

...just have to see Jesse," says Darryl Richards of East Harlem. "I think if Gary Hart or Walter Mandrel care cane people would...

Author: By Paul DUKE Jr., SPECIAL TO THE COMMON | Title: Jackson Courts New York Minority Vote | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

...moved to Sag Harbor, a resort and fishing village on the eastern end of Long Island. All along, his life was like a badly made play; none of the people or places quite seemed to fit the man, any more than did the costume he sometimes affected: black cape, cane and broad-brimmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Man Who Belonged Nowhere | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

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