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Word: deliverance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Occupied Manchuria, 1934. Wealthy American Tourist Audrey Driscoll should head home. Instead she stays to shelter 19 tiny orphans and deliver the baby of a dying 14-year-old girl. When the smoke clears, she takes the infant home to San Francisco, then spurns a marriage proposal from the only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Oct. 13, 1986 | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

True, Gorbachev had repeatedly and publicly proposed a snap meeting to negotiate a ban on nuclear tests. But Reagan and his closest advisers had had no hint that the Soviet leader was about to suggest, under conditions of strict secrecy, a far broader meeting. Upon beginning talks in Washington on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iceland Cometh | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

After a two-day strategy session in the Baltic port of Gdansk, Solidarity called simultaneous press conferences there and in Warsaw to deliver a stunning announcement: the organization was moving back aboveground and would openly campaign for recognition. "We do not want to act clandestinely," said Solidarity Chairman Lech Walesa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland Out of Hiding | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

Secretary of Education William J. Bennett says Harvard exemplifies a failure of universities nationwide to meet their obligations to students, according to the prepared text of an address he is to deliver this afternoon at a Sanders Theater.

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: Bennett: Harvard Epitomizes Failures in Higher Education | 10/10/1986 | See Source »

Police use beepers too, and they sometimes provide unexpected leads. When an unfamiliar number mysteriously appeared on Miami Police Detective Juan Garcia's digital pager, he dialed it and received an order for 35 lbs. of marijuana. Garcia promised to deliver the goods, went to the designated meeting place and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Street Smart: Drug dealers turn on to beepers | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

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