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Word: stormings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dinnertime last Wednesday, on the first night of winter, a rain of fire and metal suddenly fell on Lockerbie, destroying houses and automobiles and scattering debris as far as 80 miles away. Some called it a "great ball of flame" and likened it to a fire storm or a mighty clap of thunder, while others wondered if it was the result of an accident at a nearby nuclear plant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terror In the Night: The Crash of Pan Am Flight 103 | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

Sleep late every day, and stay dry in a storm...

Author: By Abigail N. Sosland, | Title: Christmas Shopping From A to Z | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

Following a storm of protest, Boston University President John Silber has agreed to loosen up on his parietal plan that includes a ban on all overnight guests of the opposite sex from the school's dormitories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class Cuts | 12/10/1988 | See Source »

Having made it through the storm of meets thatmarked the squad's early season, Harvard can nowprepare for Saturday's showdown against Army inWest Point, N.Y. The dual meet is the Crimson'slast before Christmas vacation, when it willtravel for 10 days to Honolulu for its annualtraining trip...

Author: By Joseph Kaufman, | Title: Aquamen Take Fourth in Tourney | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

Shamir sparked the fire storm by promising to amend Israel's Law of Return, which grants automatic citizenship to any Jew. Shamir professes little personal interest in the details of Jewish conversion; his courtship of the religious parties simply reflects his determination to control the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shamir's Exquisite Dilemma | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

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