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Word: conventioners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Question: From the following brief plot outline, can you guess the title of the movie? A group of young men, considered outcasts from ordinary society, connives to engage in sexual congress with a group of attractive young women. They spy on the girls in the shower or while they are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: And Animal House BEGAT . . . | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

It is 1 p.m. on April Fool's eve, and 2,000 of the faithful have filed into < the sold-out Tupperware Convention Center in Kissimmee, Fla. On the lawn outside stands a light infantry of pickup trucks; one bumper sign reads GOD GUNS AND GUTS MADE AMERICA--LET'S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Hype! Hell Raising! Hulk Hogan! | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

The movement of prisoners across the border into Israel sparked heated protests over possible violations of the fourth Geneva Convention. Under the agreement, which Israel ratified in 1951, individuals can be detained only within an occupied area and cannot be taken to the territory of the occupying power, regardless of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Taking Hostages to Israel | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

Israel argued that the fourth Geneva Convention did not apply to its actions in Lebanon because Israel had never declared the southern part of Lebanon to be occupied territory. The Israeli government also claimed that under the convention it had a right to move the prisoners as a security measure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Taking Hostages to Israel | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

Viet Nam Combat Survivor Richard Anderson espouses some maverick ideas for a post commander of the conservative Veterans of Foreign Wars. "Our job," says Anderson, head of Post 5888, Santa Cruz, Calif., "is to keep people from becoming veterans." Last April the 36 members of Post 5888, most of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Veterans: Mutiny Over Central America | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

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