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Word: transistors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...People coming for the fireworks show should carry transistor radios tuned to WBZ 1030 AM 1030, which will provide simultaneous music," Mary Ellen Fitzgerald, coordinator of the celebration, said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Prepares To Celebrate 350th Birthday | 10/4/1980 | See Source »

...Committee come true, it will be a clear and dark night. If so, fireworks will begin on the banks of the Charles at Harvard Square. If it's raining, Sunday is the rain date. People to watch include George Plimpton, New York's honorary fireworks marshal. And bring a transistor radio turned to WBZ AM 1030 for music as the sky lights...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: When, Where, Who, What | 10/4/1980 | See Source »

...ever was. Its five nations with 20 million people make up one of the most impoverished belts of the Western Hemisphere. If the bustling capitals have made it into the modern age, their vast rural areas are still largely shrouded in the semifeudalism of bygone centuries. Except for the transistor radio and the motorcycle, few of the amenities of modern life have ever arrived. Village women weave their own brightly colored dresses on primitive handmade looms. Water is fetched from a common spigot, and ox carts are still a common mode of rural transportation. A glaringly unequal distribution of wealth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CENTRAL AMERICA: The Land of the Smoking Gun | 8/18/1980 | See Source »

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