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Word: saws (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...successor, Linda S. Wilson, was named in May after a search that saw several of the top contenders--including Yale professor Judith Rodin--withdraw their names from contention for the Radcliffe post...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A New Leader | 9/15/1989 | See Source »

...month of August saw Wuer Kaixi absorbed in a remarkably different activity: taking Harvard's placement exam in the Quantitative Reasoning Requirement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ...As Leading Student Dissident Enrolls After Escape from China | 9/15/1989 | See Source »

...wrong--I loved going to the U.S Open. I saw spectacular shotmaking. I saw inspirational intensity. I saw Ivana Trump tell her bodyguard...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: "Quiet, the Bor-meister is Serving" | 9/13/1989 | See Source »

...make much noise. Look who they are. The U.S. Open isn't white-washed Wimbledon, but even without royalty, it's still a cocktail party for the rich and suntanned. (And white--my friend Ron, Wilt Chamberlain and Zina Garrison's family were the only Black people I saw in the stands.) Ticket prices are out of control. Most tickets aren't even for sale. Unless you know Mr. Tepper (like my friend's dad did) or Mr. Trump or Revlon or Nissan or Unisys, you can stay home and listen to Mary Carillo yammer...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: "Quiet, the Bor-meister is Serving" | 9/13/1989 | See Source »

...question of pluralism in another, more violent language. On one March night, two Black students run to catch a University shuttle bus but are pulled off by Cambridge police, searched and left without explanation on the curb. Ask the police why they acted so, and they answer they saw two men running on a street after a nearby convenience store robbery. Granted, they say, the suspect in the robbery was a single white male, but under the mercury lights in the Square perhaps skin color is too deceptive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Working for Inclusion | 9/13/1989 | See Source »

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