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Word: armfuls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ferocious defense gave the Harvard offense, behind the arm of Tara Gustilo, a scoring opportunity late in the quarter. Gustilo's shot bounced off the top post and back to her, and she proceeded to stuff in the rebound with...

Author: By Hank Hudepohl, | Title: Aquawomen Earn Harvard Tourney | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

PAIN. Director Sergei Lukyanchikov's critical documentary on the Afghanistan war. In one of the most striking scenes, a veteran who lost an arm asks, "If ((the Afghans)) came here to help us 'build socialism,' how would we react?" Answering his own question, he admits, "They hated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Soviet Sampler | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

...came into office on probation in the eyes of the Republican hard right and wary of appearing susceptible to Gorbomania. Some members of the new team seem to relish the chance to sound tougher than their predecessors. A number of Bush aides have privately derided Ronald Reagan for his arm-in-arm stroll through Red Square with Gorbachev at their summit meeting last June and for proclaiming the Evil Empire a thing of the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad the Need for New Thinking | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

...tank seemed poised to topple off the memorial honoring the heroism of local citizens in the Great Fatherland War, as World War II is known. A crane loomed above the construction site of the new Communist Party headquarters, just across from an imposing statue of Lenin thrusting his arm into the future. Political posters and slogans of a type that had all but vanished from Moscow could be seen on billboards and atop apartment houses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAMBOV: PERESTROIKA IN THE PROVINCES | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

...Pusey says. "They were trying to act like they were being brutalized, but Dean Ebert [of the Medical School] was there, and he could tell you there was no brutality of any kind. I think there was one girl that jumped out the window and may have broken an arm or something like that, but I don't think anybody else ever went to the infirmary. The reports of violence were just not true. There was no violence at all. The police just pushed you, they just trucked them right down the stairs and out...It was done very quickly...

Author: By Adam K. Goodheart, | Title: 'And Don't Think Young People Can't Be Evil' | 4/7/1989 | See Source »

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