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Word: wednesday (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sneddon was invited to camp for the Canadian Junior Olympic team, instilled with the impression from coaches that he would make the roster which would compete in a Finland over the Christmas holiday. The Harvard defenseman went to the camp last Wednesday, but was sent packing Saturday morning after failing to, make...

Author: By Gary R. Shenk, | Title: Canadians Ignore Sneddon and Roy | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

...bloodshed began shortly after 5 p.m. on Wednesday, when Marc Lepine, 25, an unemployed electronics buff who once aspired to study at the engineering school, arrived at the hilltop campus building. Armed with a hunting knife and a .223-cal. Ruger rifle manufactured in the U.S., Lepine climbed to the second-floor corridor and shot a woman student dead. Then, a carefree grin on his face, he entered the mechanical-engineering class of Professor Yvon Bouchard, where a student was in the midst of presenting his term project. "I want the women!" cried Lepine, ordering female students to one side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada The Man Who Hated Women | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

...point, the government seemed intent on depicting a mood of impending breakdown, as if trying to ensure its survival by convincing people that only the present leaders could keep blood from flowing in the streets. In a statement issued through the state-run ADN news agency last Wednesday, the government reported "growing indications of stormings of facilities and installations of the National People's Army." But no mention was made of where the assaults took place. In a separate appeal, from the army, generals warned that they would not permit disturbances at military installations and called on soldiers to fulfull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West Out of Control? | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

...line from the the movie "Revenge of the Nerds" said that nerds were better lovers, because while all jocks thought about was sports, all nerds talk about is sex. In a lecture Wednesday, Widerman told three nerds and geeks listeners--who recently proclaimed on television's "People Are Talking" that they never have sex--that yoga would aid their sex lives...

Author: By Johanna B. Berkman, | Title: Life as a Jock Nerd | 12/16/1989 | See Source »

Under the current constitution, Parliament has 14 days from the resignation of President Gustav Husak on Sunday to choose a new president. Participants in Wednesday's talks said the deadline would be extended to 45 days...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Czechs to Elect President by January | 12/14/1989 | See Source »

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