Word: arced
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thirty yards out, he planted his left foot and booted the ball in a fierce low arc past the startled, diving Brand into the right corner of the goal. Chinaglia jumped, raised his hands over his head, and embraced the grinning Beckenbauer...
Within four days the worst was over -maybe. The dust had settled in the heavy-fallout area, roughly from the ruptured peak to as far east as Montana. Fine ash particles, mostly glasslike silica, had spread in a gigantic, banana-shaped arc in the stratosphere across the nation and will slowly dissipate into invisible clouds after blowing round the world several times. Outside the Northwestern U.S., people will probably notice nothing more than some spectacularly colorful dawns and sunsets over the next several months...
Moravia has always been adept at manipulating literary conceits for startling effect. He once wrote a novel about a man who talked to his penis. An Italian Joan of Arc who hears the voice of nihilism calling her to action is a promising conception, and the author has not lost his admirable appetite for extremism in the defense of humanism...
...much of it disadvantageous to us. It cannot, as Brzezinski sees it, be insulated from East-West relations. It is partly autonomous and partly overlapping. In an Administration that was intending to give top priority to the Third World, we have Iran in anti-American chaos, that whole arc of crisis more and more hostile to the U.S., India and Pakistan both vying for Soviet favor, a Soviet base in South Yemen, the Afghanistan occupation, a Soviet base in Ethiopia, Cubans and East Germans all over East Africa, Central America in anti-U.S. turmoil. And the last conference...
...that she had at least for a moment eased the tensions between the U.S. and the militants by personalizing and depoliticizing the situation. Her younger sister, Judy Haessly, 34, takes a more down-to-earth view: "She's not a traitor, and she's not Joan of Arc. She's just a mother who wants to see her son." Said President Carter to Walter Cronkite after Mrs. Timm's trip: "My heart goes out to her. I have no intention of punishing...