Word: blur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than 100 woman troopers. Since arriving four days after the invasion, they have handled a wide range of chores, from escorting VIPS and guarding the U.S. embassy to flying helicopters and doing intelligence work. Though they theoretically hold "support" positions away from battle areas, the lines can blur on Grenada. "If somebody shoots at me, I think I'm allowed to shoot back," says Lieut. Kathryn Henderson, 24, a helicopter pilot from Winter Springs...
General impressions from alumni are valuable for their fresh perspective, but relying too heavily on first impressions is likely to blur the picture of an applicant rather than focus it sharply. Rebecca J. Joseph
Stringent currency reform helped to subdue the German inflation, however, and the next five years developed into a kind of rosy blur in economic history. Not so 1929: it is one of those years, like 1776 or 1914, that is synonymous with a single event, in this case the Great Crash. Politicians and businessmen might keep saying that prosperity was just around the corner, but they could not still the anguished question that
...four years as governor. During this time, she has done little if anything to antagonize the governor or the people. One pollster noted that the contrast between her actions as acting governor and Stovall's have been a strong mark in Collins favor. Good exercise of power tends to blur the memory of the perceived bad exercise of power. Anyone who wondered whether a woman could handle the job of Governor of Kentucky could be shown that in fact the commonwealth has had a woman governor for 492 days...
Young did not resist. Through a blur of pain and fear, feeling the blade of his knife scraping up and down her back, she tried to keep a conversation going. "I quickly decided that if I lived through this, I was going to know as much about him as possible," recalls Young, 36, an emergency-room nurse who had often treated victims of rape but never imagined it could happen to her. "I kept putting my hands all over him, trying to feel for moles or scars or some identifying mark...