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Word: check (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Undergraduate Council Chairman Richard S. Eisert '88 met with College administrators "to double-check" the plans for the May 1 show at Bright Hockey Center...

Author: By Joseph C. Tedeschi, | Title: College Officials Approve Concert by Elvis Costello | 3/10/1987 | See Source »

Other Conservative Club tactics also contributed to the impression that something serious might happen. Student marshalls were instructed to check coats and bags. In addition, video cameras filmed the audience, suggesting that films could be used to identify protesters. Harvard Police guarded the Science Center with an impressive show of force...

Author: By Kevin M. Malisani, | Title: Coping with the Conservative Club | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...touched base with the administration atleast eight times about the concert so this willbe no surprise to them," said Eisert. "I'm goingto double-check with them tomorrow. And I don'tthink the administration will have any problemswith the concert of Costello," added Eisert...

Author: By Joseph C. Tedeschi, | Title: Council Supports Concert | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...memos in the Tower report reveal both Ollie the dutiful Marine and Ollie the renegade cowboy. The commission found that North kept National Security Adviser John Poindexter "exhaustively informed" of his actions through a computer network they code-named "Private Blank Check." The name aptly describes the license Poindexter gave his aide to carry out foreign policy through questionable initiatives in the name of the U.S. In negotiations with Iranian officials, he announced that the U.S. was tilting away from its official policy of neutrality in the Iran-Iraq war, and he fabricated fantastic stories of meetings with the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oliver North's Blank Check | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...Bedtime. The overhead bulb is turned off, but the night-light allows the guards to check through the judas-hole in the door. They monitor him frequently, sliding the cover aside and peering in at the sleeping prisoner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union A Day in the Depths of the Gulag | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

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