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Word: williamsburg (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...during this weekend in Williamsburg, Va., these three-and 99 others, drawn two apiece from 50 states plus the District of Columbia-are absorbing the interest of adults, for they have been judged the brightest and best leaders of the nation's 3.1 million high school seniors, class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Virginia: Pursuing Positiveness | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

...competition, a program called Century III Leaders. They are student-government presidents, church youth leaders, honor-society members. They were judged on their knowledge of current events, school grades and written proposals for solving public problems. Each of them received a $1,500 scholarship plus the free trip to Williamsburg. At the end of this two-day conference, funded by the Shell Oil Company, one will be named a kind of super Century III Leader, and awarded a $10,000 scholarship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Virginia: Pursuing Positiveness | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

Robert Emans Williamsburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 5, 1979 | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...country's genius of UKDs (Unusual Killing Devices); each, independently, has decided to retire from the killing game. Both are then marked for "extraction" by their agencies (they know too much). To survive, the assassins must knock off the five top section bosses of their respective outfits in Colonial Williamsburg and rustic Zhukovka. The odd couple?Dirty Eddie and cosmopolitan Vasily?get to pool their talents through a seductive Washington connection named Chalice, whom they also share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Skuldruggery and High Technology | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

Most of the 1.3 million Puerto Ricans in the greater New York City area live in the grim, crumbling tenements of Manhattan's East Harlem and Lower East Side, or in Brooklyn's Williamsburg ghetto, or in the burned-out wasteland of the South Bronx. For them, life is mostly a grinding struggle for survival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: NEW YORK | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

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