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Word: phoning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, the coaches had not given Roy a phone call as of yesterday evening, meaning that the Crimson netminder would probably not make the trip. The Canadian team left for Finland yesterday...

Author: By Gary R. Shenk, | Title: Canadians Ignore Sneddon and Roy | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

...rebels' shadowy National Governing Council is a troika chaired by General Eduardo Abenina and filled out by Lieut. Colonel Gregorio ("Gringo") Honasan, mastermind of the last two coup attempts, and General Jose Maria Zumel, a renegade officer loyal to the cause of Marcos. In a phone call, Abenina told TIME that the rebels could count on about 60% of the military for support. Soon, he said, they will begin a new phase of the rebellion, destroying property and, perhaps, waging a campaign of political assassinations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines There Is Always a Next Time | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

Later, in the weeks and months that followed, the rape did not disappear. Its memory remained in the endless Undergraduate Council debates about how to improve security. It lived on in the faces of the uniformed security guards who arrived at the Science Center. And in the 2 a.m. phone calls to the escort service, made by women who would no longer walk alone...

Author: By Kelly A.E. Mason, | Title: A Community Confronts a Rape | 12/13/1989 | See Source »

Breaking his silence, the still unapprehended Honasan told TIME during a brief phone call, "We do not wish to spurn our friendship with the American people. But I believe it is morally wrong for Ambassador Platt to take sides because it will mean more bloodshed." Saving democracy may be its own reward, but for the U.S., this rescue could have long-term costs. Now that Washington has used force to prop up the Aquino regime, will anything less do the next time a threat arises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines Soldier Power | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

...horrible rug burns. And she has unbearably tacky ballet posters hanging in her apartment that she has to look at every day. She has painfully boring sex with both her lovers. And she clearly lives with the psychological stress of having ESP--she always reaches to answer the phone before it actually rings...

Author: By Kelly A.E. Mason, | Title: Probable Rug Burns | 12/8/1989 | See Source »

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