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Word: towns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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After working 50 hours a week for the sports department of a small-town daily this summer, I was sick of sports, and ready to give up sportswriting for good...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Love and Hate | 10/2/1987 | See Source »

...rural, one-stoplight town has one thing in abundance: bars. When all the college kids go home for the summer, these bars fill up with beer-drinking, tobacco-spitting, tavern league softball junkies...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Love and Hate | 10/2/1987 | See Source »

...conference's organizers do not plan to discuss the arrest this summer of Jose Razo '89, a Mexican-American Harvard student who is now facing 15 counts of armed robbery in his native town of La Habra, California, Torres said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chicano Student Groups To Confer On Higher Ed. | 9/30/1987 | See Source »

...exam in question, candidates were asked how they would respond to a problem on the job--for example, a series of housebreaks in a particular area. "Everyone there was a nervous wreck," Dottin said, mentioning time pressure, the presence of out-of-town examiners, and ambiguously worded questions. The officers were graded on their answers' similarity to a prepared list of solutions...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Court Bars Promotions Of City Police Officers | 9/29/1987 | See Source »

...most famous of the Lumiere films to be shown tomorrow is "Arrive d'un Train en Gare," which depicts the arrival of a train at the French town of Ciotat. When the film was first shown, members of the audience believed the train would actually hit them...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Harvard Film Archives To Show World's Oldest Movies In Series | 9/29/1987 | See Source »

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