Word: five
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...some precautions to see that patrons do not get burned. Customers fill out cards describing their sensitivity to the sun; people with obvious skin problems such as psoriasis or porphyria are supposedly turned away. Booths have timers that turn off the lamps after a set period, typically one to five minutes, though dedicated tanners with hides that can take it may stay up to 15 minutes...
...latest talks, in Cincinnati, delegates reached an important milestone by agreeing on what sort of ministers the united church would have. First, there will be bishops, though five of the ten groups historically have avoided having them. There will also be regular clergy (termed presbyters) and two types of ordained deacons, one a professional service worker, the other a lay officer...
...Olympic flame will ignite a huge torch on a pedestal at the Lake Placid High School. With that, the 13th Olympic Winter Games "will be officially under way. In 1932, tiny Lake Placid (pop. 3,300) played host to the first Olympic Games ever held on American soil. Nearly five decades later, the same village, now even smaller (pop. 2,997), is bracing for what could prove to be, if events take the darkest of turns, the final true Olympics. The sad truth is that the political pressures that have always borne so heavily on the Olympic Games today threaten...
...Davos, the Heidens drew knowing and admiring crowds. With good reason: in the long history of their sport, only Eric has been deemed capable of winning the gold in all five men's events, ranging from the lightning-fast 500-meter sprint, through the middle distances of 1,000 and 1,500 meters and on to the grueling 5,000-and 10,000-meter endurance races. His younger sister Beth is favored in two of the four women's events. Said a Dutch father, his hand resting lightly on his son's head to guide the boy's eyes toward...
...lives with his divorced mother on the flat fringes of a city that is never named, perhaps because he cannot distinguish it from "all the suburbs, the duplex development motorhome supermarket parking lot used cars carport swingset white rocks juniper imitation bacon bits special gum wrappers where in five different states he had lived the last seven years." His astronomical address, 14067½-C Oak Valley Road, mocks the idea of a coherent community. His job as a checker in a nearby supermarket by the freeway leads nowhere, and neither, as far as he can tell, does his life...