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Word: deeded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...introduce a bill this month that would give ROTC- like tuition assistance to students doing community service. Thanks, say some, but no thanks. "Volunteerism should be selfless," explains M. Richard Rose, president of Rochester Institute of Technology. "Ideally you should be like the Lone Ranger. You do a good deed, then you leave a silver bullet and move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Silver Bullets for the Needy | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

...with what he viewed as General Douglas MacArthur's insubordination as commander of United Nations forces in Korea, Harry Truman told an aide, "The son of a bitch isn't going to resign on me! I want him fired!" Yet Truman did not complete the deed in person; instead he relayed his orders, signed by Army General Omar Bradley, to MacArthur in Tokyo. As it turned out, MacArthur learned indirectly from radio reports that he was out before Truman's message ever reached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Firing Is Hard to Do | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

...deed to be done, and one vice president gave...

Author: By Shannon E. Liss, | Title: Rascal Rodents Run Rampant | 2/17/1987 | See Source »

bloodthirsty accomplices to the deed...

Author: By Shannon E. Liss, | Title: Rascal Rodents Run Rampant | 2/17/1987 | See Source »

...seems to be enjoying it." Still, the site of the next regatta, in 1990, is undetermined. Political winds figure to blow for San Diego, whose yacht club is entitled to designate the next pond. Hawaii's dramatic seas, for example, may be considered splashier for TV. Under the Deed of Gift, only a foreign power can dislodge the Cup from wherever the S.D.Y.C. decides to display it. Just as Southerner Ted Turner once defended for New York City, any U.S. suitors must now pledge fealty to San Diego. This may affect the enthusiasm of San Francisco or New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fremantle Says Good on Yer, Mates | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

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