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Word: lusitania (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cantabs also commented on the closing of Lusitania Field, a soccer field in Cambridge. Players and coaches of the Eastern Massachusetts Women's Soccer League brought forth the issue...

Author: By Vasant M. Kamath, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Residents Seek to Save Soccer Field | 12/9/1998 | See Source »

...rumor circulating in his hometown, Pascagoula, Miss., that he shot his mother and the mailman before departing for foreign shores. He married the same woman, nude composer Lola Plitskaza, five times and divorced her twice. Their only child, Enrico, an embalmer of some promise, died tragically on the Lusitania, though not the voyage on which it sank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Unknown CRANFORD GLIMP | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

...million industry. One film now has profits equivalent to the GNP of a small country. Once it passes the $1 billion mark worldwide and beats the twice-released "Star Wars" at home, look for Hollywood to do what it does best -- copycat movies. Coming soon: Love aboard the Lusitania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's That Movie Again | 2/25/1998 | See Source »

...never been eager to send its soldiers overseas. Wilson was reluctant to enter World War I. It took the sinking of the Lusitania, at the cost of 128 American lives, to draw him in. Had it not been for Pearl Harbor, America Firsters might have prevailed in keeping the U.S. out of World War II. The Tonkin Gulf incident, in which Washington claimed North Vietnamese patrol boats fired on U.S. warships, provided Lyndon Johnson with a pretext to secure congressional support of the escalation in Vietnam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: Woodrow Wilson in the Gulf | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

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