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Word: vans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plan of attack well rehearsed and thorough. Leaving a fishing cabin rented under a false name, the group of eight split into three teams; two of them rode in vans loaded with unmarked cardboard cartons while the third left in a 17-ft. outboard motorboat. The van teams entered the huge U.S. Marine base at Camp Lejeune, N.C., through different gates and joined forces at the PX parking lot. They stopped briefly at Second Division headquarters, then drove to an on-base junior high school, where hundreds of unsuspecting students were attending classes. The boat team, meanwhile, sneaked undetected onto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sneak Attack | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

...Star, the paper identified the "attackers" as a team of its own reporters and photographers, plus a couple of friends. The "weapons" carried in the boxes were not bombs and guns but prewritten notes designed to point up lax security. At Second Division headquarters, for example, one of the van teams taped up a note in a rest room a short distance away from the office of the division commander, Major General Alfred Gray. "If this had been a bomb, it could have blown up this building," the note read. "Think about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sneak Attack | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

...choice of what to discuss in recruitment meetings is determined partly by the student." Van Sheets, assistant director of MBA placement, said yesterday. "Already some students will not discuss grades," he added...

Author: By George S. Canellos, | Title: B-School Students Favor Policy of Grade Secrecy | 3/9/1984 | See Source »

However, unless use of the word processors increases sharply, the price will not come down, said Marcus R. van Bsalen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Word Processors | 3/6/1984 | See Source »

Members said private funds finance all Witness for private groups and added that more than 700 contributions to lead characters account for most of the Massachusetts group's funds. "We take them [the contributions] shown with us in spirit," said Van Droner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Minister Will Travel On Nicaraguan Peace Mission | 2/28/1984 | See Source »

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