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Word: wayed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clear. To find out what schemes the sometimes impetuous President was cooking up with Winston Churchill, Marshall often had to ask Britain's chief military representative in Washington. He would then protest loudly, putting out a restraining hand that benefited both the President and the country. In his own way each man was a genius without whom the war would have been even longer and more terrible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Oct. 30, 1989 | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

...bother denying the Interior Minister's account of his oral one. At another point he said he had been "joking" in his story to police. Moscow gossips speculated that the man of the people might also be a man of the bottle who had been on his way to bestow the roses -- and perhaps other attentions -- on one of his more ardent female supporters. Said a Soviet journalist: "He started out like Huey Long and he's ending up like Gary Hart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boris The Trigger-Happy | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

...where it will go," he boasts. The house fills both lanes and knocks into a speed-limit sign, shattering two back windowpanes. Shelton Kelly walks ahead, bending back or briefly yanking out a few signs in order to make room for the wide load. Oncoming traffic generally gives way, yet one van driver insists on trying to squeeze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canton, Mississippi A New Kind of Moving Day | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

...Move out of the way. Damn fool!" Malone hollers out the window. "Don't you see I'm moving a house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canton, Mississippi A New Kind of Moving Day | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

...temblors so frequently that some of the townspeople proudly call it the Earthquake Capital of the World. At 5:04 p.m., 19-year-old Albert Valles was working out in a gym when he felt the building begin to shake. He ran into the street as the facade gave way, burying his Jeep under an avalanche of bricks. "I would have been finished," Valles marveled. No one was injured. Yet in nearby Watsonville (pop. 23,550), the Bake-Rite Bakery caved in, fatally smashing a passerby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earthquake | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

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