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Word: mosts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Upon entering, an odor rose up around you and surrounds you still. It is the most delicious and fragrant and sweet-smelling of odors and one which you cannot buy, for it is nothing less than a confused compound, a farrago of a thousand smells. Even could you afford to...

Author: By Karen A. Odom, | Title: Drugstore | 12/6/1979 | See Source »

The Crimson kept the puck in the Terrier's end for most of the first period and went to the locker room with a 1-2 lead and an amazing 20 shots on goal.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: J.V. Icemen Turn On Offense, Skate by B.U.'s Terriers, 9-7 | 12/6/1979 | See Source »

It was indeed a strange episode when the Shah of Iran, former head of one of the world's most brutal and repressive states, managed to land in the U.S. as a "private citizen." For several days leading newspapers published first page stories detailing the treatment of the Shah's...

Author: By Names Withheld, | Title: Life Under The Shah | 12/6/1979 | See Source »

The media had less to say about the 60 per cent of adults left illiterate, and the increasing income gap which made Iran one of the world's most unequal societies. Little was heard about the royal family's financial scandals and their heroin smuggling on a global scale.

Author: By Names Withheld, | Title: Life Under The Shah | 12/6/1979 | See Source »

SAVAK conducted most of the torture, under the friendly guidance of the CIA. which set up SAVAK in 1957 and taught them how to interrogate suspects. Amnesty International reports methods of torture that included "whipping and beating, electric shocks, extraction of teeth and nails, boiling water pumped into the rectum...

Author: By Names Withheld, | Title: Life Under The Shah | 12/6/1979 | See Source »

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