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Word: sided (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Down south near the Namibian border is the other side of the war's legacy: a ^ state-of-the-art government air base bristling with the latest Soviet-built MiGs, tanks, radar, antiaircraft missiles and camouflaged bunkers. Angola is the tenth largest importer of arms in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Angola Where Blossoms And Bullets Grow | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

...book that has impressed some pretty influential folks. Yale professor Harold Bloom calls Brodkey "unparalleled in American prose fiction since the death of William Faulkner." Susan Sontag says Brodkey is "going for real stakes. I read every word he writes." The author, who lives on Manhattan's Upper West Side, has sometimes been willing to join the chorus of his admirers: "It's dangerous to be as good a writer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Atavistic Gondolas | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

...million stories in the Naked City -- which is twelve stories too many. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court let stand a lower court ruling requiring a New York City developer to tear down the top dozen floors of a new 31-story condominium on Manhattan's East Side. The concrete superstructure for all 31 floors was in place in 1986 when the city found that the building violated zoning laws and ordered it cut down to size. The developer, Parkview Associates, kept working on the building and went to court, arguing that there ( had been an error in the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trim a Little Off the Top | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

After getting a side-out, Schossberger and Anderson combined to put the set away with kills down the line...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Spikers Down the Red in Tense Contest | 10/15/1988 | See Source »

...cross between football and soccer, rugby has 15 players to a side and is played on a field 110 meters by 75 yards...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: The World of Scrummage | 10/15/1988 | See Source »

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