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Word: turnings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Turn off all the lights in the Prudential Center, shut down Fanueil Hall and lock up the Boston Common until the Red Sox have won it. When they actually clinch the title...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Beware the Ghosts of Fenway | 9/23/1988 | See Source »

Stop the "T." Evacuate the city to Cape Cod. Tell the Globe and the Herald to not print any magic numbers on any page. Magic can turn back...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Beware the Ghosts of Fenway | 9/23/1988 | See Source »

...Education is the soft underbelly of apartheid and means different things to different people," Cooper said. "For the government it means more domination, more enslavement to make Black men and women to think they are only good as manual laborers. But this has created resentment." That, in turn, has radicalized the few Blacks allowed to enroll in college, Cooper said...

Author: By Liam T. A. ford | Title: Group to Aid Schools for Black South Africans | 9/21/1988 | See Source »

Johnson said the sticker effort for Bolling--who ran such a campaign because he failed to turn in his nomination papers on time--faced several problems: different parts of the district used several different kinds of ballots with different procedures for write-in voting; some voting machines had write-in slots too high for handicapped or elderly voters to reach; and, as in Graham's district, the turnout set record lows at around 15 percent...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Sticker Campaign Seen As Long Shot | 9/20/1988 | See Source »

...talent, in turn, is coddled and honed. Promising grade schoolers are channeled into the country's 2,000 training centers. The best of them -- around 9,000 at any given time -- go on to some 25 residential sports schools, where 2,000 full-time trainers, plus doctors, masseurs and cooks, begin building Olympic winners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Watch Out For the G.D.R. | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

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