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Word: weres (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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-- In Budapest acting President Matyas Szuros stood on a balcony overlooking a rally in Parliament Square and said that the 1956 uprising, which the Soviets suppressed with tanks and the hangman's rope, was actually a "national independence movement." He declared the People's Republic of Hungary, so named in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yes, He's For Real Mikhail Gorbachev | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

FIGHT FOR US. A saintly priest is gunned down and mutilated. A basketball team is massacred. A female rebel is raped by a vigilante commandant; when the commandant is killed, his lieutenant carves open the dead man's chest and eats his flesh. These horrifying events might seem the stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Nov. 6, 1989 | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

At the center of this colossal custody fight is the most unlikely pair of partners in the film world. Guber, 47, an erudite native of Boston, holds a law degree from New York University. In 1968, while working on his M.B.A., he landed a job in the casting department at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dynamic | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

In July, Joseph Monticciolo, the former New York regional administrator for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, contended that D'Amato had repeatedly pressured him to approve housing projects. Many of them, HUD documents show, were in Puerto Rico, which the regional office administered. Last week HUD Secretary Jack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Everybody's Pal | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

It wasn't until she arrived at Yale that she felt she belonged and that her creativity and diligence were fully appreciated. But something happened during her junior year in Denmark to mar that feeling of assimilation. She got on a bus in Copenhagen one day and became acutely aware...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First She Looks Inward: MAYA LIN | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

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