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Word: volkswagens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eric grew up in Los Angeles' posh Brentwood section, and by tenth grade was an honor student, a varsity baseball player and an accomplished cellist. He was also becoming a crack addict. With friends who were similarly hooked, Eric would hop into the white Volkswagen camper his dad had bought him and drive into the seedy Venice Beach area. There he would purchase rocks from Los Angeles gang members. Sometimes he made three trips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kids Who Sell Crack | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

...right did not come from Tunis until early April. The Israeli navy provided transport across the Mediterranean in a large vessel, then carried the team of 20 commandos ashore in rubber dinghies some 20 miles north of Sidi Bou Said. The commandos loaded into a Peugeot 305 and two Volkswagen vans and were delivered by MOSSAD agents to al-Wazir's doorstep. Other agents sabotaged the telephone switch box in the neighborhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Assignment: Murder | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...entire narrative of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) from memory as his animators scribbled the tale onto storyboards. When Disney died in 1966, the company went into virtual suspended animation. Disney's last big hit of that era was 1969's The Love Bug, about a Volkswagen named Herbie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do You Believe In Magic? | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

...operation was carried out by a commando unit of 30 members of the Israeli Defense Forces. After crossing the Mediterranean in a large vessel, the commandos switched to a dinghy to make their way ashore. In Tunisia they were met by three men carrying Lebanese passports who provided two Volkswagen vans and a Peugeot 305. Dressed in camouflage uniforms designed to resemble the Tunisian National Guard, the commandos drove to al-Wazir's house, staged the hit, then returned to the vessel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Gunned Down in Tunis | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

...residents of both rural villages lived and let live. Last week the Palestinian turmoil that has engulfed Israel and the occupied territories came even to this remote spot. As 15 or so Palestinian youths manned a rock barricade across the road leading to Kafr Qaddum, a familiar blue Volkswagen van braked to a halt. Inside were two well-known settlers from Kedumim, Shimon Kav, 41, and Yosef Ferber, 48. The Arab youths say they told the driver to go away. The settlers say they were pelted with stones, and in self-defense Kav sprayed bullets from an Uzi submachine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Neighbor Against Neighbor | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

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