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Word: rosey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Younger began the legend, the first player from a black college to make it to the National Football League. Tank returned to the rural school of 4,000 in north Louisiana and helped Willie Davis get to the N.F.L. Davis came back and helped Ernie Ladd and Buck Buchanan. Rosey Taylor helped Willie Brown. Charlie Joiner helped Sammie White. Now White has been coming back to help a receiver named Trumaine Johnson, who should be a No. 1 draft choice next year and the 206th Grambling Tiger to play professional football...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Some People Build the Roads | 10/11/1982 | See Source »

...Pahlavi-an ancient Persian language -as his dynastic name. Following his coronation, his first-born son Mohammed Reza, then seven, was designated crown prince. The elder Shah paraded the child around in gold-encrusted uniforms, groomed him in sports and, when he was twelve, packed him off to Le Rosey, an exclusive Swiss boarding school. By then, as the Shah wrote in his 1961 autobiography, he already had a mystical sense of mission and was convinced by visions that he had been "chosen by God" to save his country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Emperor Who Died an Exile | 8/4/1980 | See Source »

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