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Word: knowns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...train whenever I want and go all over the country--although things are really far apart. I'm writing you from the middle of this dirt-pit known as Dakong. It is the home of some amazing 1560-year-old Buddhist caves which hold huge three-story-high Buddhas. Truly breathtaking. The monuments here are built on such a grand scale...

Author: By Eliza Rosenbluth, | Title: Choosing Culture Over Politics | 11/21/1989 | See Source »

...Jose Las Flores has been occupied by a special batallion of the Treasury Police since late October. Ryan said the people of the village are undoubtedly suffering at the hands of the military, although little is known of their situation because foreign journalists are not allowed in the country...

Author: By Michael P. Mann, | Title: City Adopts $6.3M Loan to Buy Clinic | 11/21/1989 | See Source »

...work outlives the folly and redeems the sadness. Throughout the artist's long career, that was always the case. Every biography of O'Keeffe -- including this massive one -- is really an elaboration of the message she sent a student back in 1924: "Making your unknown known is the important thing -- and keeping the unknown always beyond you. Catching, crystalizing your simpler clearer vision of life -- only to see it turn stale compared to what you vaguely feel ahead -- that you must always keep working to grasp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet of The Desert | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...ironic humor suggests a David Letterman filtered through the pages of Spy magazine. But Sweet represents something different for TV, a new breed of entertainer known as the comedy jockey. Viewers will learn what she does on Wednesday, when the Comedy Channel, a new 24-hour cable service from HBO, goes on the air. It is one of two all-comedy networks getting set to square off on a new battlefield of yucks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Round-The-clock Yucks | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...Elis are known for their tenacious defense. But you know better, and Harvard quarterback Tim Perry finds Jim Reidy in the flat for a pass and run, setting up Silas Myers' go-ahead 3-yd. touchdown...

Author: By M.d. Stankiewicz, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: You Should Know Better... | 11/18/1989 | See Source »

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