Word: thursdays
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Chapayev, Thursday...
...then, the skyjackers had set late Thursday afternoon as their deadline; either the 53 imprisoned terrorists would be delivered to Uganda or all the hostages would be killed. Shortly before expiration of the deadline, Jerusalem declared that it was willing to negotiate with the skyjackers. This was a decision Israel made with great reluctance, for Jerusalem has long maintained that concessions merely encourage more terrorism. The skyjackers then postponed the deadline three days and allowed an additional 101 captives to fly to Paris. Remaining as hostages were 93 passengers-mostly Israeli or those with Jewish sounding names-and the twelve...
...Remo men's suits and I. Miller women's shoes, slashed more than 10,000 employees from the payroll and installed a new management team. "There were a lot of people around here who didn't work," Franklin Jarman told TIME Correspondent Jack White. "They thought Thursday afternoons were for golf and that if you got to be an executive vice president both Wednesday and Thursday were for golf. Well, I don't play golf, and a lot of people who had fairly comfortable berths were rudely shaken up and tossed overboard...
...held our presses until Tuesday, July 9, so we could report that day's proclamation of the Declaration of Independence?which Congress had voted the previous Thursday ?in front of George Washington and his troops in New York. Any event that happened after that, we could not have known, but we made use of later documents in which actors in the drama of 1776 wrote their recollections...
...next Thursday Venn hopes to have taught students how to write a good rejection letter. "Is there anything more difficult to write than a rejection letter?" the diminuitive Venn asked last week...