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Word: stoning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kabul International Airport last week. As it did, a string of incandescent flares dropped from the aircraft, a necessary defense against Stinger missiles, the U.S.-made, heat-seeking, antiaircraft weapons used by the mujahedin, Afghanistan's resistance. On the airport perimeter, sunburned Soviet soldiers stood around a formidable new stone-and-cement guard post topped by a hammer-and-sickle flag. Their thoughts were turning toward withdrawal from their flinty outpost. "Who wouldn't like to go home?" asked Victor Avershin, a blond, 19-year-old private. "Everybody wants to go home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan Looking Toward the Final Days | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

RUBEN BLADES: NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH (Elektra). The Panamanian sensation's first all-English album is a stone dazzler. A bold, totally successful mix of Latin pop, jazz, rock, doo-wop and unflung street passion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: May 2, 1988 | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...David Stone spoke with the students at his State Street office and said he would pass on their message to his brother...

Author: By Lisa A. Taggart, | Title: SASC Activists Go Downtown | 4/27/1988 | See Source »

...think it is difficult for Robert Stone to make clear moral choices when he has other economic interests to consider," Noah M. Berger '89 told him. "He has a responsibiltiy to explain his interests...

Author: By Lisa A. Taggart, | Title: SASC Activists Go Downtown | 4/27/1988 | See Source »

...David Stone said he doubted the message would generate any action but agreed to pass on the student delegation's views. He would not discuss the morality of Robert Stone's position with Berger, saying, "You wouldn't want to come between me and my brother, would...

Author: By Lisa A. Taggart, | Title: SASC Activists Go Downtown | 4/27/1988 | See Source »

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