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Word: vesting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks later in New York City. A man posing as a Princeton University professor offers the Discorsi and three other books to a New York bookseller for SI 1,000. Suspicious that such a rare book should just appear like that, the bookseller contacts authorities. Then, donning a bulletproof vest, he goes to lunch with the mysterious professor at the Princeton Club, ostensibly to consummate the deal. At the conclusion of the sale, undercover agents arrest Greek-born John Papanastassiou, 34, a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University. At his Riverside Drive apartment, police cart off 95 more rare books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Light-Fingered Bibliophiles | 10/19/1981 | See Source »

...wiry celibacy. He's Hemingway's man, and he's that Dearslayer from James Fenimore Cooper. He's one of the real men you see at the hangout trying out a few High Lifes in the Miller commericals. He wears flannel shirts, boots, and a down hunting vest. He shares a mobile home with one of the guys. He drives his '59 Cadillac into the mountains to hunt deer one last time before he has to go to Vietnam...

Author: By F. MARK Muro, | Title: DeNiro | 10/15/1981 | See Source »

...Dale P. Vest Kansas City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 4, 1981 | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

...fifth and the sixth to ice the win. At Soldier's Field HARVARD HOLY CROSS AB R H BI Gary Quinian, cf 4 1 1 0 Vin Eruzione, 2b 3 0 0 0 Pat O'Reilly, dh 4 0 0 0 Dave Stenhouse, c 3 0 0 2 Jim Vest, lf 4 0 1 0 John Ahern, rf 4 0 0 0 Tom Scannell, 3b 4 0 0 0 John Gross, ss 3 0 1 0 Ed Scannell, lb 2 1 1 0 Oino Casagrande, 2b 1 0 0 0 Totals 31 2 4 2 Paul Chicarello...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Nine Purges Holy Cross, 5-2; Curtin Scatters Four Singles | 4/22/1981 | See Source »

...Reagan had been wearing only a "front-and-back" vest last week, his sides would have remained exposed and he probably would still have been wounded. Only the full, wrap-around model would have protected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Protecting the President | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

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