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Word: deliverate (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Worse still is the political tool the People's Temple had become before many of its members left California. Jim Jones became the late George Moscone's Housing Authority Commissioner in San Francisco two years ago because he could, on six hours' notice, produce two or three thousand obedient bodies...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: A World Gone Berserk | 11/30/1978 | See Source »

The most surprising development was the disclosure that the Soviets had, in the past month or so, delivered 20 MIG-23 Flogger jets to Cuba. One version of this plane can deliver nuclear weapons. If this is the model now in Havana's hands, the U.S.S.R. has seriously violated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Superpower Smoke Signals | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

Criticism of RUS has often been well-deserved. Its unsatisfactory performance in past years has contributed to a negative image. But this year's organization cannot be blamed for the discontent caused by past action--and inaction. The last to justify the mistakes of others, we are enthusiastically trying to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Defending RUS | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

Ed Brooke is in good company. There are 1500 people in the Sheraton-Boston ballroom for the annual awards dinner of the Boston chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Someone has screwed up in the scheduling. Brooke can only stay to deliver a five minute...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: 'It Doesn't Stop in the Living Room' | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

WITH ONLY 53 days remaining on his sentence, Billy learns that the Turkish government, incensed over a diplomatic dispute with Washington, has singled him out as an "example" among foreign drug smugglers; the upshot is a new 30-year sentence, which provokes Billy to deliver an ugly tirade against the...

Author: By Joe Contreras, | Title: Busted at the Border | 11/4/1978 | See Source »

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