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Word: turbans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...towels: A thick, soaking wet cold towel, wrapped around your head turban-style, is just the thing to beat the heat...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: BEATING THE HEAT | 7/9/1993 | See Source »

...area residents on "How to Move from Poverty to Riches." Yahweh ben Yahweh, whose name in Hebrew means "God the Son of God," says he is the son of God and that whites are "the devil," seeking to enslave blacks economically and spiritually. Appearing in white robes and a turban throughout his five-month trial, the leader quoted the Bible often and denied the charges that he had ordered the murder of black defectors from his cause and the slicing of ears from randomly selected white people for trophies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Temple of Love Crumbles | 6/8/1992 | See Source »

...mountain, barely inside the Turkish border with Iraq and near the town of Uludere. Crying softly, a young woman approached through heavy rain, opened a blanket held close to her chest and handed the body of an infant swathed in a burial cloth to a man in a large turban. He laid the small body in a hole already filling with water; he and others shoveled in earth. The men crouched and, as one prayed aloud, murmured after him in low voices. Their faces, and those of the women of the mother's family who huddled, nearby showed only numbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Refugees: Death Every Day | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

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