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Word: doings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Why should anyone be moved to anger by the educational plans of a 19-year-old black kid from a small town on the sandy banks of the Pamlico River? Because North Carolina is basketball country, that's why. It is a state where few issues besides tobacco prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In North Carolina: The Strange Case of Dr. Dunk | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

gymnasium to watch Dominique do his stuff. Naturally, North Carolina State, a perennial basketball power, was interested. Concedes its athletic director, Willis Casey: "We wanted him in the worst way." David Thompson, a former N.C. State forward who is now one of the highest paid players in the National Basketball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In North Carolina: The Strange Case of Dr. Dunk | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

The Fedayan, on the other hand, are a hard-line secular group with no ties of any kind to Khomeini. They were the first political group to stage marches against the government after the fall of the Shah. They sent thousands of guerrillas to fight against Khomeini's forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Through Blood and Fire | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

Azerbaijan may seem a remote corner of the world, but this was once the land of the all-powerful Medes, the birthplace of Zoroaster, and from its capital of Tabriz the Mongol Khans ruled an empire that stretched from Egypt to Cathay. Though a disastrous series of earthquakes leveled every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Another Ayatullah Is Angry | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

At first Carter was stunned by what he had unleashed through a fairly casual process. He and his aides lapsed into their old habit of cataloguing all the things they could not do. But events would not allow it.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Gulliver Is Up and Around | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

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