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Word: sound (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...single day last week some 4,000 to 6,000 refugees crossed the Awali, rumbling over a bridge and through an Israeli checkpoint at the rate of three cars or trucks a minute from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Most of the refugees were silent; the only consistent sound was the idling motors of hundreds of cars in long lines waiting to get on the bridge. Said a man from the village of Jiyah, who gave his name only as Simon: 'Lebanon is something that belongs only to fairy tales. I gave up. There is no Lebanon.' " Most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Failure of a Flawed Policy | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

Three Harvard bands--the Dance Bandits. Jane's Parents and Off the Cuff--as well as a student-run disc-jockey company. Liquid Sound, all provided tree music for the marathon...

Author: By George A. Whiteside, | Title: Dancers Net $7500 for N. Cambridge | 2/21/1984 | See Source »

...addition to the lack of morale in some of the actors, technical difficulties also reveal the movie's low-budget nature. Glare plagues the outdoor scenes and the tone and volume of the sound changes erratically...

Author: By Melanie Moses, | Title: Filming Dreams | 2/21/1984 | See Source »

...Emerging from private briefings by Deputy Secretary of State Kenneth W. Dam on the intended Marine redeployment, Democrats and Republicans alike expressed scorn and consternation. Said a Republican Senator after the meetings: "They don't want to leave Lebanon without some measure of success. That doesn't sound like withdrawal to me. They don't have any intention of leaving." Republican Congressman Trent Lott, the House minority whip, said he told Dam, "You people are not in touch with reality." Said Senate Minority Leader Robert Byrd: "It's not only chaos and confusion over there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon: The Power of Perception | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

This is Scott Hamilton's week too and, in skiing, Tamara McKinney's and Phil Mahre's. Although it does not sound like Mahre's. "Some athletes need a gold medal to be set for life," he says. "I'm set for life already." For a commentary on the relative riches of men, the Yugoslavs tending drifts on the snowy hills were rewarded with candy bars. Most of the snowplows in Yugoslavia, and a few from Austria, are in Sarajevo. The rest of the country must be closed. The duty-free shop at the press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Snows, and Glows, of Sarajevo | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

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