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Word: taking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anger toward Khomeini should cause us to try to take some kind of revenge, there is an easy way to do it. All that would be necessary is to declare our recognition of an independent Kurdestan and our readiness to supply it with all the arms it needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Iran's Revenge | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Harvard's Advanced Standing program now grants sophomore standing to students who take three Advanced Placement exams and achieve a score of 3 or above on each. Mack I. Davis, director of Advanced Standing, recently reviewed the requirements, concluded they weren't stiff enough and recommended the Faculty raise the number of exams required to four and the scores...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Magic Number | 12/8/1979 | See Source »

...DESTROY-DESTROY and he disappears behind the drummer, who keeps a steady, low roll. The singer emerges from the other side of the drums wearing an Iranian flag shirt and American flag pants. There are 50 safety pins mending the rips in his shirt. They do a song called "Take Me Hostage," and at the end, at the height of a feedback, the bass player sets the singer's shirt on fire. The bass player takes the pillow out of the bass drum and wallops it against the singer's chest. "Aggggh, it hurts," the singer sings, and closes...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: The Color of Their Brains | 12/8/1979 | See Source »

...ROAD LEADS PAST MIT, past Central Square where the hookers and the cabs and the police all compete to take people home with them. All the way down the road, lined with happy and vicious people celebrating the end of a work week, making parodies of threats, laughing the serious. All the way to Holyoke Center, where a group of American students is staging a show...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: The Color of Their Brains | 12/8/1979 | See Source »

...something," she prattled on. She was young and talked too much. She knew the world. She read all the books, knew all the names. "Just give ME a gun...I'll go and blow them all away. He's crazy. He's a lunatic and he's gonna take 50 innocent lives...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: The Color of Their Brains | 12/8/1979 | See Source »

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