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Word: carly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...showed up in the driveway outside his mother's modest apartment in the Runyon Creek public housing project, everyone assumed that it was the clincher in N.C. State's sign up Dr. Dunk campaign. After all, she wasn't working. How could she afford an expensive car like that? Besides, weren't red and white the Wolfpack colors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In North Carolina: The Strange Case of Dr. Dunk | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

...first, the house seemed ideal, a perfect setting for EJ.'s Queen Anne furniture. At night, the street was softly illuminated by gaslight. Then E.J.'s luck began to change. First someone ripped the radio out of her sports car. Then, in mid-November, a far more serious episode occurred: a bearded man in his 20s broke into the house and raped her. Her reaction was bizarre. "If I had to be raped," she told a friend, "I'm glad that he was the man who did it. He didn't abuse me. He didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: You Can't Go Home Again | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

...thought of moving away, although her car was looted a second time and rocks later were thrown at her house. She remained curiously unshaken, never bothering to turn on her expensive burglar alarm system, and merely replacing a broken window with a plastic sheet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: You Can't Go Home Again | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

...night of the dance, her date Albert Barrett, came by to pick her up When she did not answer her door, Barrett stopped a passing police car, and one of the officers entered the house with a passkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: You Can't Go Home Again | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

Came the energy crunch of 1974, and passing drivers began to gesture impolitely. The Hermans persisted. But needless to say, things got worse recently. One night the Hermans found a note on their windshield: "The only reason I don't set fire to your car is because I'm not sure you're Iranian. Go home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Unsafe at Any Speed | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

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