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Word: tens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Edward was suddenly dismissed from his job after ten years of service with the company. We have no idea what he did or didn't do, but is quite possible that his drinking had something, if not everything, to do with his being fired at the age of fifty-five..But the dire implications of the firing produced in Scott an enduring conflict of feeling about his father...

Author: By Kelly A.E. Mason, | Title: Writing Under the Influence in the Roaring Twenties | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

...from Fort Polk, La., and Marine assault troops from Camp Lejeune, N.C. Also transported into Panama will be some 200 support vehicles, including armored personnel carriers and mortar carriers. At the same time, hundreds of military dependents in Panama evacuated their homes and moved to the safety of the ten U.S. military bases that bestride the 50-mile- long Panama Canal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lead-Pipe Politics | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

Harvard's offense has not been as explosive as Harvard offenses past. Ten goal outings do not come as easily as they once...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Seventeen Days of Waiting and Waiting | 5/19/1989 | See Source »

...female or male. He puzzled over fairly basic questions: "The period of enjoyment, in sex, seems to me a very doubtful one. I've asked the fellows in this hut (three or four go with women regularly). They are not sure: but they say it's all over in ten minutes: and the preliminaries -- which I discounted -- take up most of the ten minutes. For myself, I haven't tried it, & hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Hero Our Century Deserved | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

...school library still refused to free the five policemen they held hostage. When 20 policemen tried to break into the room, the captors tossed fire bombs at a hallway barricade that they had soaked with kerosene and paint thinner. The raiders were not lucky: six policemen died, and ten were seriously injured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea: Disaster at Dongeui | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

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