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Word: writes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like to see some of my little films, and so he gave me a pass to get on the lot the next day. I showed him about four of my 8-mm films. He was very impressed. Then he said, 'I don't have the authority to write you any more passes, but good luck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: I Dream for a Living | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

...worked out a plot to mislead investigators into thinking that Agca had acted alone in St. Peter's Square. When Agca was seized in the square, he was carrying a letter stating that the motive for shooting the Pope to protest U.S. and Soviet imperialism. "(Vassilev) suggested that I write (the letter) because in the event of capture it would be useful to give the impression of a lone killer," Agca said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy the Third Man | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

Scandals in recent years, such as the uncovering of the admission of students who could barely read or write, or the point shaving disasters, prompted college presidents to make a move...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: One Small Step for the NCAA | 7/12/1985 | See Source »

...facilitate the exchange of ideas, the Institute organizers have encouraged the participants to keep journals and write freely of what they learn from each other...

Author: By Rebecca K. Kramsick, | Title: Building Better Schools | 7/9/1985 | See Source »

...poet and writer, live in Princeton with their son Ernesto, 13. "I've lost time," he says of the decade between his imprisonment and exile. "I spent ten years fighting and trying to remain alive." Now he is trying to make up those silent years. In addition to writing poetry and fiction, he turns out several columns a week for Latin newspapers, including the Spanish-language section of the Miami Herald. Unlike many other exiles -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn is his example -- he does not brood over the past or look wistfully toward the place of his birth. "I do not admire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poet Heberto Padilla: Four Who Brought Talent | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

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