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Word: deliverance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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The President originally had wanted to speak for 20 or 25 minutes, but found after practicing and timing himself that his talk was longer than that-it took 34 minutes to deliver-and he decided there was nothing he wanted to cut. As a result, his rushed delivery caused him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Challenge to Change: Reagan calls for an end to spendthrift Big Government | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

Although the University's Internal Audit department has yet to issue refunds to spring customers of the defunct and bankrupt Harvard Delivery News Service, officials at the New York Times and the Boston Globe said this week that service will start up again on March 4. The Crimson will deliver...

Author: By Nancy F. Bazer, | Title: Meanwhile... | 2/28/1981 | See Source »

In fact, if one disregards all the obliquities and subtle strategies of presentation, Port Tropique reveals itself as essentially a novel of the basic high-tension, high-adventure mode, not really much different from those pharmacy book-racknumbers with titles like the Tortuga Transfer or Midnight in Morocco. It's...

Author: By F. MARK Muro, | Title: Port of Call | 2/26/1981 | See Source »

Sweeney and Kuhn suggested cutting Cobb in on the deal because, as the team's top scorer, he could most affect their attempts to beat the spread. In fact, of the nine games involved, three times the players were unable to deliver, and the spread held. The deal, Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Fixer | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

In A Treasury Alarm, Jocelyn Davey's fifth Usher novel, Ambrose is in the exotic city of Boston to deliver a series of lectures at nearby Harvard. The Treasury-"the innerest of inner circles" -asks him to look over an improper Bostonian named George Fletcher, who is busily gobbling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Don Vivant | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

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