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Word: curious (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...need a "cah" to get there, and you don't even need to be from Bahston to join the table, which will feature a group of Beantown natives delving into the mysteries of their curious dialect...

Author: By Adam Schwartz, | Title: 'Pahk Your Cah' at the Beantown Accent Table | 10/31/1985 | See Source »

...curious world was given a peek at some of the evidence that his enemies claim to have against Abbas. On Wednesday evening, Ehud Barak, chief of Israel's military intelligence department, appeared on television. He played a tape recording in Arabic of the radio conversations that served to back the American and Israeli claim that Abbas was involved in the hijacking. There was nothing beyond the Israeli assertion to show that the tape was genuine. A man identified as Abbas, but referring to himself by the nom de guerre Abu Khaled, could be heard talking of "our objective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: The Price of Success | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

...cardboard parcel with his name on it, and a shrapnel-filled bomb inside blew up in his face, killing him. Some 90 minutes later, in the hilly suburb of Holladay southeast of the city, Kathleen Sheets, 50, returned home from a walk. She bent down to pick up a curious package, with her husband's name on it, sitting by the corner of the garage. The parcel exploded, and Sheets was killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Utah Docudrama :Murder Among the Mormons | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

...defense, Spence, a veteran of Princeton's honor code, has rightly decided to make the results of the nationwide study public to engender campus-wide debate about the issue. He has repeatedly labelled the study a "fact-finding" exercise and said he's curious to find out what students think about the idea...

Author: By Kristin A. Goss, | Title: Spence's Snitches | 10/19/1985 | See Source »

...motorcade moved up the Champs Elysees, the General Secretary raised his hand and gave an occasional wave out of the window of his armor-plated Peugeot 604 limousine. There were precious few people to wave back. For blocks along the route, only a few of the insatiably curious leaned against police barricades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gorbachev's Charm Offensive | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

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