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Word: usher (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then a young black woman lunged forward and slit his throat with a pocketknife. The victim, Dan Murek, 48, miraculously survived. Rosemary Usher Jones, a local judge, tried to keep driving after a concrete chunk smashed her car window, but was soon hemmed in by the mob. Said Jones, 53: "They ripped my rings off my fingers." She was pulled to safety by two black girls and by Willie Watkins, owner of the 14th Street video arcade, where the violence had begun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miami's New Days of Rage | 1/10/1983 | See Source »

With his cutting, analytical commentaries on the Vietnam war, the American presidency, the beatnik generation and the boxing match between Floyd Patterson and Sonny Liston, Mailer helped usher in a new writing style, the New Journalism, in which the reporter becomes an active participant in the story. According to Willie Morris, an editor of Harper's in 1968, Mailer was "creating the language" by his new use of words, sentences, and obscenities...

Author: By Andrea Fastenberg, | Title: No Easy Answers | 1/4/1983 | See Source »

...women interested in trying out in the spring for the tennis team should contact Coach Don user before December 11 to get information. Court space is limited, so Usher needs to know as soon as possible how many potential players he will have. He can be reached by calling 495.2695 or by stopping by his office at the Palmer Dixon Tennis Courts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 12/7/1982 | See Source »

...women interested in trying out in the spring for the tennis team should contact Coach Don Usher before December 11 to get information Court space is limited, so Usher needs to know as soon as possible how many potential players he will have. He can be reached by calling 495-2695 or by stopping by his office at the Palmer Dixon Tennis Courts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 12/6/1982 | See Source »

...clearly not the case; President Reagan just recently requested more guns and assistance for several Latin American countries. The White House simply wants to pressure Israel to get but of Lebanon and change its policies in the occupied territories. Ultimately, Washington hopes to weaken support for Begin and usher the Labor opposition into power...

Author: By Antony J. Blinken, | Title: Where It Hurts | 12/6/1982 | See Source »

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