Word: words
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Talbott had been covering the Conference of Nonaligned Countries. Talbott found no shortage of soldierly looking Soviets in the Cuban capital. "Every morning I went jogging and passed groups of young Russian men," he says. "When I greeted them in Russian, they looked surprised, but usually returned a friendly word or two." Also reporting for the story was Economics Correspondent George Taber, who had been in Cuba only a month earlier for a firsthand look at the country's economy...
...rhetorical repudiation of his country's colonial past, Muzorewa last week ordered that the word Rhodesia be dropped from its name. If the bishop's parliament approves the change, the country will henceforth be known as Zimbabwe, after a black civilization that existed in the area before the coming of the white...
...your boys are letting you down, George. Can't be much good, can you? ... I'm not quite sure when I will strike again, but it will definitely be some time this year, maybe September or October - even sooner if I get the chance." That taunting 260-word tape-recorded message was mailed to Assistant Chief Constable George Oldfield of the West Yorkshire police in June. In it, the twisted murderer known as the "Yorkshire Ripper" vowed that he would soon add to his string of eleven brutal killings. Last week he kept his word...
Condominium has been a fighting word in Cambridge for years now, ever since the nationwide condo boom hit this crowded city. Developers, property-owners and some of the city's conservative leaders place condos on a par with apple pie and ice cream. Condo opponents, who include a five-member majority of the City Council, mention the converted apartments in a tone Cambridge usually reserves for incest and the New York Yankees...
That's the word from a Florida chemist, who has found what he calls a sharp decline in male fertility...