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Word: telling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...falling, is at 2103. Long lines of people form to take turns in the N.Y.S.E.'s spectator gallery. Heather Walker, 27, wants to "tell my grandchildren I was there." But she wonders if the crash means she will never be a mother. "Even in good times, men are scared of getting married," says Walker. "In the coming depression, forget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crash: A Shock Felt Round the World | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

...decisive meeting occurred Tuesday after the market close. James Baker, by then back in his Treasury office after having cut short his trip to Europe, first called in Howard Baker, Greenspan and Sprinkel to coordinate what they would tell the President. Then, joined by Duberstein, they went upstairs in the White House to the brightly colored West Sitting Room, which the Reagans use as a living room. James Baker opened by telling Reagan that the world seemed to be looking for some movement on the President's part, and the quickest way he could display leadership was by reaching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crash: Panic Grips The Globe | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

...Good Man Is Hard To Find, Flannery O'Connor. These short stories have nothing to do with Halloween, but as anyone familiar with O'Connor can tell you, they fit the occasion perfectly. The title piece is particularly horrifying, and if someone named the Misfit comes begging candy at your door, call HUPD P.D.Q...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: Halloween Bedtime Stories | 10/31/1987 | See Source »

...pour: "Hop-Frog," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Raven" and "The Bells," in any good anthology, Edgar Allen Poe. By the Master of Disaster, the Big Daddy of Supersonic P-P-Pulse Rate. Each piece is guaranteed to knock a couple years off any poor pup's life. And "The Bells," especially, is a terrific way to round off your Poe-portion. Find yourself getting sleepy? Little Weak? Sorta drowsy? Recite "The Bells" aloud into a tape deck, pop your recording into an industrial strength ghetto blaster, and let-errrrrip, full volume, for dozing neighbors...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: Halloween Bedtime Stories | 10/31/1987 | See Source »

Political prisoners in La Mariona protested thedeath of Anaya on Monday, shouting throughmegaphones to tell other prisoners what hadhappened. Yozell said yesterday that Anayaorganized an office of the CDH in the prisonduring his time there...

Author: By Emily M. Bernstein, | Title: CASA Protests Killing Of Rights Group Leader | 10/28/1987 | See Source »

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