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Word: yew (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Foggy Bottom. Information was scanty, even for President Reagan and National Security Adviser Robert ("Bud") McFarlane, who consulted twice on Monday night. Ironically, Secretary of State Shultz was aboard a ship himself: on a Potomac River barge where he was entertaining Singapore's visiting Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: The U.S. Sends a Message | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

...Minister Zhu described last week's achievement as "a symbol of the maturity" of the Chinese party and thus of Deng's leadership. That still leaves the question of who will eventually succeed the durable Deng. When told last week during a visit by Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew that the world is wondering who could possibly replace him in the Chinese hierarchy, Deng reportedly laughed and replied that he had no worries on that score. "Even if the sky falls," he told his visitor, "there are people to hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Golden Handshakes in Peking | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

...whining in the high notes, but down low it is rich and round. As he throws himself into one of his specialties-Heartbreak Hotel, Blue Suede Shoes or Long Tall Sally-his throat seems full of desperate aspirates ("Hi want you, hi need you, hi luh-huh-huh-huv yew-hew") or hiccuping glottis strokes, and his diction is poor. But his movements suggest, in a word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC 1956: Teeners' Hero Elvis Aaron Presley | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...concerts did, with a rather hokey taped excerpt from Jim Hendrix's "Star Spangled Banner." The message in person was. "No encore, but isn't this a funny cryptic way of ending the show?" Reassuring, however, is Jagger's last line before the distorted guitar begins. "Thank yew..See yew next year--bah bah!" Gray hair and all, that would be nice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Still Living | 6/25/1982 | See Source »

While the K-School has only recently stepped up its efforts abroad--adding new Third World recruiting teams--it has a long list of illustrious foreign alumni. Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau graduated from the school in 1948; Singapore's Premier Lee Kuan Yew was a fellow at the Institute of Politics in 1968 and 1970; and Mexico's President-elect Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado received...

Author: By Antony J. Blinken, | Title: Captains and Kings: The K-School's International Graduates | 6/10/1982 | See Source »

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