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Word: colombia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Usage:

...next day approved, by a vote of 17 to 0, an Argentine-sponsored resolution condemning Britain's "unjustified and disproportionate armed attacks" and asking the U.S. to lift the economic and military sanctions that it had imposed against Buenos Aires last month. The U.S. abstained, along with Cuba, Colombia and Trinidad-Tobago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Sorrow Than Anger | 6/7/1982 | See Source »

...Donna Wigdahl. Tom owns an electrical contracting company in Elk Grove Village, Ill., and commutes during the November-May Florida season. They have "lots" of polo ponies and a three-bedroom villa at the P.B.P.C.C. "We've met lovely people from all over," says Donna. "From Colombia, Germany, Brazil. You don't talk about changing diapers. Between the wealth, the polo and the people, it's just been fantastic. It answers everything I want out of life. And here we are out in the boonies. I'm having such a great time. I may never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Rush to the Gold Coast | 5/10/1982 | See Source »

Your Essay hit home. As a teacher and book collector, I liked to share knowledge. But in Colombia, South America, I learned a proverb that translates as "It is not known who is dumber, he who lends a book or he who returns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 26, 1982 | 4/26/1982 | See Source »

...remainder of the MFO troops arrived at week's end. They came from ten other countries, including Colombia (500 troops), The Netherlands (105), France (42), Italy (90), Uruguay (70) and Fiji (500). The men will be commanded by Lieut. General Fredrik Bull-Hansen, a lanky Norwegian who was first exposed to the complexities of the Middle East while serving in a force that supervised the Israeli-Egyptian cease-fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peace-Keepers | 3/29/1982 | See Source »

...went to Colombia with a botanist out of St. Louis University, Al Gentry," Olson says. "I spent a few months doing botany work, collecting and classifying plants, before traveling through Central America and up to the American West...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Return Of Mitch Olson | 12/15/1981 | See Source »

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