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Word: coconut (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...department-store sale signs, knowing that an inexpensive shirt, soccer ball, handbag or rug is making a child elsewhere pay a huge price? It is high time both companies and consumers here realize their double standard and start to change their attitude toward the Third World. KRISHNAN SRINIVASAN Coconut Creek, Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 8, 1996 | 7/8/1996 | See Source »

...were unquestioningly patriotic and accepted these discomforts. What we could not make sense of was a tragedy in a Boston nightclub. The Coconut Grove fire in the fall of 1942 killed hundreds of young people, including a Radcliffe classmate. It was as near as I had yet approached death; my date and I had tried to go there that evening but the club was full and we were turned away...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Exciting Decade for the 'Young Girl' | 6/4/1996 | See Source »

...Cuban people or stop efforts from abroad to attain freedom for them. I hope to see the end of Castro's regime. I will not predict the result; history will speak for itself. Unfortunately, too many lives have already paid the price for Castro's rule. ASTERIA PENA Coconut Creek, Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 1, 1996 | 4/1/1996 | See Source »

DIED. WES FARRELL, 56, songwriter; of cancer; in Coconut Grove, Florida. Farrell's hits included Hang on Sloopy and Come a Little Bit Closer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Mar. 11, 1996 | 3/11/1996 | See Source »

Billig still remembers the first time she heard the Voice. On the day that Amy vanished while strolling to her parents' art gallery in Coconut Grove, Billig and her husband Ned alerted the police and the press, bought extra phones and placed pads and pencils by each extension. When the first late-night call came some 10 days later, Billig answered. "I was trying to spare Ned," she recalls. That night, Billig scrawled the first of the many meticulous notes she would still be filing away chronologically two decades later. Within a month she could recognize the caller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VOICE OF THE TORTURER | 12/18/1995 | See Source »

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