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Word: trios (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Michael Raus, Jonathan Osier and Byron Burge, who finished private school in the Louisville area in June, faced the prospect of an endless summer without a job before they entered college. The trio then decided to exploit their preppie cachet. They assembled about 25 well-scrubbed young men and women to do odd jobs in the well-heeled area and called their new enterprise Preps for Rent. The basic company uniform: Lacoste shirts, Top Siders and khaki pants or shorts. For $7 an hour, this upper-class job corps mows lawns, serves drinks and paints houses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When in Need, Rent a Preppie | 8/17/1981 | See Source »

...Scott Harshbarber, attorney for one of the three doctors, said yesterday he thought the statement would probably not reopen the case, or become a major issue in the appeal the trio filed immediately after the verdict...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Juror in Doctors' Rape Trial Says Verdict Was Mistaken | 8/4/1981 | See Source »

...trio had been accused of forcing the women into a car after a Boston party, driving her to a North Shore beach house, and then compelling her repeatedly to engage in sex. They were acquitted of kidnapping charges, but found guilty of rape and sentenced to six months in prison, amid a courtroom full of cameras and weeping mothers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Juror in Doctors' Rape Trial Says Verdict Was Mistaken | 8/4/1981 | See Source »

...trio also read a letter, allegedly written by Pastora on June 26, suggesting that he would carry on the struggle in El Salvador or Guatemala, fighting in "the trenches where the duty of an international combatant leads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua: Minus Zero | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

Soldiers dropping one by one to the ground, doubled over in the agony of death. Men lifting a feather-light ballerina and unexpectedly groaning under the strain. A trio dancing to a mournful Sardinian folk song in the eerie darkness of an eclipsed moon. These are some of the images-tragic, comic, passionate-from the rich choreographic imagination of Jiri Kylian, a poet of many moods who works with movement instead of words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: And Now, the Netherlanders | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

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