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Word: rans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Laments Carl Eifler, who ran OSS operations in Asia and later got a doctor of divinity degree: "Their team's got 50 well-protected big fellas. Then there is our team: four guys in tennis shoes and shorts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Washington: A Pride of Former Spooks | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

What was her job? "Black propaganda," she replies sweetly. On her right at table 33, André Pacatte bursts into the Marseillaise as a U.S. Army band plays the French national anthem. Before and after the war, Pacatte ran the Berlitz school in Washington; during the war he used his language skills behind German lines in France and Italy. He recalls taking a 14-hour plane flight with Donovan and a group of shell-shocked American flyers returning home for psychiatric treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Washington: A Pride of Former Spooks | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

...Western Europe, the plight of the Cambodians also sparked wide-scale efforts. For the French, who had ruled Cambodia for 90 years, until 1953, compassion ran high for their former colonial subjects. This week's U.N. conference is the result of an initiative by French Foreign Minister Jean François-Poncet. His earlier appeal for more aid to Cambodia spurred a nationwide "S O S Cambodia" campaign that has raised $2 million from French citizens. Three French medical teams are working in refugee camps in Thailand, while the hospital ship lie de la Lumière, which is now headed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deathwatch: Cambodia | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

...such a man as Jock and mother to such an unwholesome brood? By his own admission, Jock (Jim Davis) made his fortune in oil by dirty dealings, and J.R. (Larry Hagman) is carrying on the tradition by cheating everyone within howdyin' distance. After much conniving, he finally ran Brother Gary (David Ackroyd) off the spread, but then Gary is a no-account drunk and gambler who probably got what he deserved anyway. Young Bobby (Patrick Duffy) is the good brother, comparatively speaking, but even he has a few black marks against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Big House on the Prairie | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

...This has absolutely been our best team effort this season. The girls really bounced back for this one and ran beautifully," coach Pappy Hunt said of the Crimson women's cross coutry team's second-place, 75-point finish in the Ivy Championships yesterday at Fairmount Park...

Author: By Jack A. Laschever, | Title: Harriers Nab Second in Ivies | 11/10/1979 | See Source »

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