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Word: yorke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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While speaking at Northeastern University's African Center yesterday morning, Queen Mother Moore an 81-years old black leader from New York City, released copies of a letter she had written to the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. In the letter she pledged the support of many black Americans who she said were willing to fight in the Iranian revolution...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Area Iran Supporters Announce Rally | 12/1/1979 | See Source »

Long ago, a New Republic editor, seeking a name for a new column, glanced up from his paper while riding a New York subway and saw the words "Brooklyn Rapid Transit." He reversed the initials; thus TRB. The BRT has vanished; Strout, far from it. While his collected essays do not form a cohesive whole, they shine individually with the glimmer of a cynical idealist. He returns every week, brandishing only his intelligence and wit. But with those tools TRB has earned his royal...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Eight White Houses | 11/30/1979 | See Source »

...film's most effective episodes, Midler draws upon her own experience as an aspiring singer in New York City's gay bars and baths. The rendition of Seger's "The Fire Down Below" with a group of oversized female impersonators shows a rare tolerance and warmth, the same elements so lacking in the lesbian scene...

Author: By Deirdre M. Donahue, | Title: Janis-Faced Rose | 11/30/1979 | See Source »

Neither the U.S. District Attorney in New York nor the Chief of Chaplains of the Army could be reached for comment on the suit...

Author: By Stephen R. Latham, | Title: Law Students File Suit Against Army | 11/30/1979 | See Source »

...Afro-American Studies Department should be changed to an interdisciplinary committee, the visiting committee to the department recommended in a unanimously approved report. The report's conclusions were made public yesterday in an article in The New York Times...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy and Maxine S. Pfeffer, S | Title: Visiting Committee Report Recommends Changing Afro-Am to a Committee | 11/30/1979 | See Source »

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