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Word: letter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pressed the flesh with anyone he could reach, displaying a deft politician's hand that would have shamed Lyndon Johnson. The police had reason to wall off their charge: the FBI in Newark received a written warning that the Pope would be shot in Manhattan on Tuesday. The letter, purporting to come from the terrorist Puerto Rican Nationalist F.A.L.N., directed the FBI to an apartment in Elizabeth, N.J., where a submachine gun gun and several empty boxes of ammunition for handguns were found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pope In America: It Was Woo-hoo-woo | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

There are many issues associated with Afro-American Studies at Harvard but black and Jewish relations is not one of them. Cedric Vessell's letter (Harvard Crimson, September 27) about Dean Rosovsky's speech at the Hillel convocation seeks to draw a connection between Rosovsky's positive assessment of the Jewish presence at Harvard, his support of Jewish studies, and what is seen as a weak Afro-American Studies Department. Vessell also implies that to be against racial quotas in admissions is to be opposed to increased black enrollment at Harvard, which, of course, is an oversimplification. But most disturbing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Epps on Afro-Am | 10/13/1979 | See Source »

...that the way you write to your Rabbi? A letter you never even bothered to mail! And you publish it, instead, in that Harvard paper for everyone to read. ("Everyone" is, I suppose, a slight exaggeration, but I'm trying to say something nice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mail to the Director's Chair | 10/11/1979 | See Source »

...write me a letter asking forgiveness, indulgence, support and then you add that deliberate affront to me and my college. "Brown is a better team" you say, "But for the sake of variety, Yale in an upset...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mail to the Director's Chair | 10/11/1979 | See Source »

...sake of variety! And then you want favors? So, now let me tell you what is going to happen. I did not get your letter until after the games, but I'll tell you about this week, Saturday, September...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mail to the Director's Chair | 10/11/1979 | See Source »

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