Word: dora
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Easily the most lopsided match in history since Germany invaded Poland, Brown devastated UPenn, 8-0. After jumping ahead to a 3-0 lead at halftime, the Bruins turned it on at the start of the second period. Bruin senior Dora Herrera led the slaughter by registering a hat trick in less than seven minutes...
Another victim, apparently, was Dora Bloch, the Israeli grandmother who arrived at Entebbe airport on board a skyjacked Air France plane in 1976, was taken to a hospital for medical treatment, removed and never seen again. As Kisuule-Minge tells it, she was brought from the hospital to the SRB. There, Farouk made a slashing motion across his throat as she was flung to the floor. She was driven away, sobbing, to a nearby forest, where she was shot in the back. One victim, a Makerere University warden named Theresa Nanziri, was eight months pregnant when she was brought...
...City councilmen, four state representatives and two state senators. Badillo's fellow Hispanics lamented his decision to abandon Congress for his deputy mayor's job, but his successor in Washington, Robert Garcia, is applauded as a compassionate, hard-working advocate of Puerto Rican concerns. Still, activists like Dora Collazo-Levy, 42, a Democratic Party district leader, complain that political passivity is the Puerto Rican community's principal bane. Says she: "People ask us why they should vote. We give them long-range answers...
...trip over roller skates on the landing, as well as many singles who feel the mere presence of children will cramp their swinging lifestyle. The policy also makes economic sense to landlords for whom tenants' children can create maintenance problems. But what are young parents to do? Says Dora Ashford, director of the Los Angeles Fair Housing for Children Coalition: "People with children are a desperate class of renter right...
...another direction last week as Britain took the unprecedented action of breaking diplomatic ties with its former African protectorate. Relations had been strained since 1972, when Amin drove out thousands of Asians from Uganda. After Amin failed to explain the apparent murder of one of the Entebbe hostages, Mrs. Dora Bloch, a British-Israeli citizen, and then expelled two British diplomats, Whitehall decided on the break. It was a costly move for Britain: Amin relinquished responsibility for compensating British firms and individuals for some $450 million in assets seized by his regime...