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Word: wednesday (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wednesday, an ominous sound razzed the terminal while I was typing a letter. And then a bomb appeared with a message, saying simply, "Sorry, a system error occured...

Author: By Darshak M. Sanghavi, | Title: Tech Beyond the QRR | 10/4/1989 | See Source »

...Last Wednesday, Harvard (3-3 overall, 1-1 Ivy) played what Getman had considered his team's best overall team performance in a 2-1 loss to Stanford...

Author: By Andy Fine, | Title: M. Booters Edge Quakers on Amen Goal | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...Unlike Wednesday's loss to Stanford, the Crimson had trouble creating opportunities. The Quakers stifled Harvard's offense in the first half, but could not generate any offensive punch of their own, either...

Author: By Andy Fine, | Title: M. Booters Edge Quakers on Amen Goal | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...typical Chinese nursery school combines day attendees and quan tuo | (literally "whole care") students. From Monday through Saturday, with the exception of Wednesday evenings, a quan tuo student lives at his school around the clock, a situation no one seems to think the least bit odd. For despite filial devotion and the supposed centrality of family life, long separation is common in China. It is not rare for spouses to work in different cities and see each other infrequently. Similarly, far from signaling neglect, paying to deposit a three-year-old in another's care for a week away from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day in The Life . . . . . . Of China: Free to Fly Inside the Cage | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...Wednesday a Coast Guard patrol of St. Croix reported "a complete breakdown of authority," and six cutters headed for the island to evacuate panicked vacationers. But the restoration of order did not begin until Thursday with the arrival of 1,200 U.S. military police, federal marshals and FBI agents -- the first time Army troops have been used to quell a civil disturbance since the riots in Washington following the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. Most of the escaped prisoners have been recaptured. What little there is left to protect is being guarded. St. Croix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anarchy In Paradise | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

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