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Word: cols (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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There was a terrible period just after they opened, said Lyle, when "nobody came, nobody called." They grossed $23,000 their first year. The 1983 gross was $40,000. They do not speak of net-out of fear, one suspects, of nervous col lapse. Everywhere about the place is evidence of awfully hard work, the kind of work that makes a man dream that his right hand has turned into a power drill, that makes a woman dream that brass will never tarnish, never again. Tough labor, requiring a backbone tough as hickory. (At the risk of irrelevancy, it comes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Vermont: Keeping Up with Keeping Inns | 1/9/1984 | See Source »

...plot thickened. It became know that just after the day of the probable explosion. Col. Amos Horey, a nuclear scientist with the Israeli armed forces had visited South Africa and met with Abraham Rouse, the head of South Africa's Atomic Energy Board. Israel had reportedly already effected an exchange of South African enriched uranium for Israeli nuclear technology. A British team of investigative reporters, after surveying the evidence available at the time, concluded that the 1979 nuclear blast was an Israeli-South African warhead fired from a Belgian and American-made howitzer...

Author: By Errol T. Louis, | Title: Close Ties | 12/1/1983 | See Source »

Ivens, who wrote the excellent Glorious Stew, whisks with authority through the steamy world of navarin, khoreshe, blanquette, ragout, jambalaya, estouffade, carbonado, col lops and pot-au-feu. She presents Italian, French and Viennese versions of Hungarian goulash, "five fragrances" stew from China, and two savory South American specialties: puchero criolla, a Latin version of New England boiled dinner, and carbonada criolla, beef stew served in a pumpkin. One notable entry is a veal stew from Jerez, Spain's sherry capital, redolent of fino; a dish from Italy is called maiale affogato, meaning drowned pork, in white wine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Old Cuisine Wins New Allure | 11/21/1983 | See Source »

...Marine commander, Col. Timothy Geraghty, told reporters 20 bodies were still in the rubble. About 70 Americans were injured, many of whom are being treated in military hospitals in West Germany, Italy, and Cyprus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beirut Marnies to 'Shoot to Kill' As Bombing Death Toll Hits 214 | 10/26/1983 | See Source »

French spokesman Lt. Col. Phillipe DeLongeaux said 38 French troops were killed, 15 wounded, and 20 were missing in the bombing at a French command seconds after the attack on the Americans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beirut Marnies to 'Shoot to Kill' As Bombing Death Toll Hits 214 | 10/26/1983 | See Source »

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