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Word: freed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Abul Abbas, I have never heard about his activities. I did not meet him. They told me he was going to Tunisia on his way from Iraq, and he made a stop here. He went to Port Said and contacted the hijackers. The conclusion was that if they freed the ship and saved the lives of the people, we would let them go free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: You Can Feel the Damage | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

...acids. Made primarily in the liver and also obtained through food, cholesterol travels through the bloodstream in round bundles of fat and protein called lipoproteins. Like Venus's-flytraps, vacant LDL receptors snare the passing packets. The lipoproteins are rapidly broken down in the cell, and the cholesterol is freed for use, while the receptor returns to the membrane, ready for prey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nobel Prizes: Honors for Seven Achievers | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

ENGAGED. Camille Dardanes, 24, grocery clerk; and Gary Dotson, 28, convicted rapist serving a 25-year term who was freed by executive clemency last May after his supposed victim, Cathleen Crowell Webb, recanted her testimony; in Country Club Hills, Ill. The couple met when Dardanes handed Dotson a rose at the start of a clemency hearing. After a wedding next spring, he hopes to support his wife as an apprentice carpenter, but may also benefit from a forthcoming book by Webb; she has agreed to turn over to Dotson her low-five- figure advance and some additional possible profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 28, 1985 | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

...made a treaty of peace, but he may not be able to restrain his warriors. It is 1812, the British are massing on the Canadian border, and the Shawnee chief Tecumseh has called for all Indians to arise against the settlers. Trapped by this turmoil is Lettiece Shipman, a freed slave from Kentucky who had hoped to go to Canada. In the meantime, she does laundry and sells sexual favors to Keene in return for booze, which he prudently waters beforehand. Betrothed to Fanny and trying to kick his addiction to liquor, Keene fantasizes about the time when he will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Search of Immortality the Tree of Life | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

...real inner, psychological drama is required of her. Near the end of the film, Close must confront the murderer herself. The moment she realizes this, a horrible, numbing serenity overcomes her. It is as if she has transcended hope and fear. And finally, it is as if she is freed from the limiting claustrophobia of her role...

Author: By Anne Tobias, | Title: Dull Drama | 10/11/1985 | See Source »

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