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Word: hunted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their Chinese dates at a party. Chinese students heard a false report that the foreigners had killed the security guard and rampaged through the Africans' dormitory, looting expensive stereo equipment and smashing furniture. At least 13 people were injured in the melee. The Chinese then went on a hunt for the black students, filling the streets and shouting, "Beat the black devils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Beat The Black Devils! Racial troubles in the streets of Nanjing | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

...literally true. Walls and walls of their house are nothing but glass, and readers who expect something to shatter will not be disappointed. But the source and degree of the destruction are entirely unanticipated. Glynnis finds a canceled check for $1,000 that Ian had made out to Sigrid Hunt, a willowy young woman whom Glynnis had once taken up socially and then dropped. Ian's explanation happens to be factual: Sigrid had phoned him in distress and in need of an abortion. Assuming she was Glynnis' | friend, Ian had offered what comfort he could and a check. But Glynnis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nice People in Glass Houses | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

...decade too often marked by selfishness and greed, a growing legion of & "Samaritans" is devoting time, energy and imagination to aiding others. -- Tight airline security measures go into effect as the hunt for the bombers of Pan Am Flight 103 begins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

CHEAPEST ROUTE TO BANKRUPTCY Texas tycoons William Herbert and Nelson Bunker Hunt paid $1 each to ride the New York City subway when they came to town to face a civil suit in U.S. District Court. A federal jury found that the former billionaires, along with their brother Lamar, had tried to rig the silver market in 1980 and assessed them damages of $130 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Most of '88 | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

...fruitless search for the killer of Olof Palme has been a source of national anguish for Sweden since the Prime Minister was gunned down in February 1986. Last week hopes rose that the hunt was at an end when the Stockholm District Court arraigned Christer Pettersson, 41, an underworld debt collector with a criminal record that includes manslaughter. Said deputy chief prosecutor Axel Morath: "I think we now have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sweden: I Think We Have the Man | 12/26/1988 | See Source »

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