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Word: romero (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Freshman David Lyons pitched a strong seven innings and sophomore Phil Romero--hurling for the first time in four years--relieved as the Harvard j.v. baseball team downed Andover, 21-6, yesterday at Andover...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 5/3/1984 | See Source »

...time, the major was an intelligence officer, and he claims he quit so he could "denounce the Communist plot." According to his adversaries, when he left the army he took with him the intelligence archives. Many people whom he accused of subversive activities, like Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, were later assassinated by the death squads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democracy Among the Ruins | 3/26/1984 | See Source »

...priests to visit military command posts and give talks on human rights to soldiers and officers. "The origin of the revolution has its roots in tremendous social injustice. The violence will not disappear until that injustice is reduced." Monsignor Rivera y Damas does not possess the charisma of Monsignor Romero, but beneath his affable air and sleepy eyes, he is extremely shrewd. Many say that he has managed to unite progressives and conservatives in the Salvadoran church with his moderate position. His theory that only reforms will neutralize insurrection is quite similar to Duarte's. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democracy Among the Ruins | 3/26/1984 | See Source »

...King-inspired fright fests about to stop. Firestarter just finished shooting in Wilmington, N.C., for May release, and Children of the Corn, based on a King short story, is also scheduled to open next spring. Meanwhile, the busy author is adapting his 1978 novel The Stand for Director George Romero, and has provided five original stories for Creepshow II, a sequel to the horror omnibus he wrote (and co-starred in) two years ago. Indeed, Hollywood seems ready to snap up virtually anything King sets to paper short of his grocery list-and there is no guarantee some enterprising director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Giving Hollywood the Chills | 1/9/1984 | See Source »

...charismatic personality attracted millions of the faithful, and his words and actions rarely failed to bring political reactions. He roared "Silencio!" to unruly Sandinistas who disrupted a Mass he was celebrating in Nicaragua; he made a surprise visit to the grave of El Salvador's martyred Archbishop Oscar Romero; and he bluntly told the government of dirt-poor Haiti, "Something must change here." In Poland he met with General Wojciech Jaruzelski and called for the unshackling of Solidarity, the banned labor union. He also met privately with his native country's most celebrated nonperson, Nobel Peace Prizewinner Lech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Four Who Also Shaped Events | 1/2/1984 | See Source »

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