Word: thursdays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last Friday the 13th, when members of the admissions board sent out the memorandum informing the 200 applicants of the error, they put Thursday's date on the letters for superstitious and traditional reasons. Apparently, it was too late...
...vandalism occured the week before Thanksgiving holidays, Lieutenant Lawrence J. Murphy of the University Police said Thursday...
Robert J. Kiely, master of Adams House, said Thursday the security around the dining hall has increased. "We're more careful about locking the dining hall when it's not in use," Kiely said...
...Thursday evening before New Year's Eve, Woods' wife drove the family car to the outskirts of East London. On the floor in the back lay Woods, his silvery hair dyed black and his features concealed by a false mustache and thick glasses. When they were safely out of town. Woods jumped out and began a 185-mile hitchhike to a town near the Lesotho border. An accomplished mimic, he told one curious motorist that he was an Afrikaner. To another driver he explained that he was an Australian poet, and to a third a German engineer...
...seemed at first; the rally that followed the Treasury-Fed announcement was one for the record books. On Thursday morning in Zurich, the dollar opened 1% up in value against the Swiss franc from the previous day. the sharpest overnight dollar rise ever recorded there. In Frankfurt, where the dollar had sagged to a record low of 2.07 marks during its autumn-long slide, it abruptly recovered to nearly 2.16, also a record rise. In Tokyo. where the dollar had fallen to a postwar low of 237 yen on Wednesday, it promptly rebounded...