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Word: rams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...floor. Crimson Editor James Fallows, | later a speech- writer for Jimmy Carter, reported encountering "the great stone-faced Nathan Pusey, (who) tried to conceal his utter astonishment at the passions tearing up his university." Pusey called in the police, plus 200 state troopers. With a four-foot battering ram, they smashed down the main door; chain cutters, sledgehammers and billy clubs did the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Schoale and How It Grew | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

Some local agencies said they are confident that they can continue to do do business as usual. Mike Yaniv of Ram Travel, a company specializing in tours to Israel, said that people are "uncertain" about travel but will go anyway. "There's no Rome in America," he says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Terrorists Scare Away Travelers | 5/2/1986 | See Source »

...Keeffe always rejected the idea that her scenes of New Mexico were meant as symbols or allegories. But it is hard to see their contrasts of image -- an Indian paintbrush or a wild daisy put against the bleached bone of a ram's skull, and that bone repeating the ancient permanence of mountain line -- without grasping that some transaction beyond the simply formal or factual is afoot. This is particularly true with her flower paintings: magnified closeups, filling the whole surface, of a black iris, a jack-in-the-pulpit, or a calla lily. Almost from the moment that they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Vision of Steely Finesse: Georgia O'Keeffe: 1887-198 | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

...voluminous report of the way the CRR viewed both incidents disclosed that police acted without University approval in forming "a human battering ram" to free the diplomat from the JCR. In response to student complaints that the police used excessive force at the demonstration, an investigative body found that, with one exception, the police did not act improperly in the confusing scene at Lowell House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Looking Back at the Fall | 1/29/1986 | See Source »

...hell with it," you say, climbing into the cab of the four-whell drive Chevy Ram she made you buy, tossing a handful of oats and alfalfa to a U-Haul full of haggard-looking thoroughbreds. "I don't need her. I don't need anybody...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: The Shepard Zone | 1/24/1986 | See Source »

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