Word: nineteen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...young woman of nineteen, married and draped in a sari, committed to her home and family, my mother first encountered a very young Indira at a local college, where she gave a speech about the role of college-educated women in the future of the country. To my mother, Indira Gandhi was and always will be a beacon of hope for the future of the Indian woman. For thousands of Indian women like my mother, she symbolized all that the Indian woman could achieve, given the limited opportunities of a social and cultural tradition that to this day requires...
...campaign didn't begin so acrimoniously. As late as August, 1983, Hunt had a nineteen point lead in the polls and was contentedly nattering away about issues. He was promoting "the Four E's": support for Education, the Economy, the Environment and the Elderly, and running on his record as a popular governor...
...Nineteen transfer students on the College's space-available housing list have moved on-campus during the first two weeks of classes, Housing Officer Lisa M. Colvin said yesterday. She added that the figures compare favorably with last fall, when the College took until October 25 to house 26 transfer students...
...line shot, base hit! Right field. The tigers win it. The Tigers win it! Here comes Kaline to score. And it's all over! Don Wert has singled. The tigers mob Don. The Fans are streaming onto the field, and the Tigers have won their first pennant since nineteen hundred and forty-five. Let's listen to the bedlam here in Tiger Stadium. Oh, what a moment!" -Radio broadcaster Ernie Harwell describing the Detroit Tigers' pennant-clinching moment, September...
...part of the preview of the sights, sounds and statistics of the Los Angeles Summer Olympics that appeared in its July 30 issue, TIME presented closeups of several individual athletes, many little known outside their home countries and specialties. Nineteen athletes appeared in a Neil Leifer photo essay that showed each of them against a background of a national landmark. In addition, nine American athletes, participating in events like archery that normally attract scant U.S. public attention, were introduced. How did these competitors fare in the Olympics...