Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...green-eyed brunette had scored high in the swimsuit competition. She had received repeated ovations during her talent program, a ballet set to the religious pop anthem Via Dolorosa. But it was during the beauty contest's final, brief Q&A that Miss Alabama, 21, performed her most moving feat. She answered a question. Her voice was a bit fluty and her consonants soft, but the college junior clearly understood Regis Philbin's query about self- realization; and her reply, a paean to belief in oneself, was obviously deeply felt. Minutes later, when Heather Whitestone, who is deaf...
...Hampered by strict rules of nonengagement, hundreds of American soldiers found themselves watching helplessly as Haiti's blue-uniformed police and khaki-clad army troops waded into the capital's crowds, swinging metal nightsticks and indiscriminately firing tear-gas canisters. In front of the harbor, the Haitian authorities conducted brief sorties, beating anyone who fell or faltered. They broke up a demonstration by hurtling through the middle of the crowd in a van. One police officer attacked bystanders with a yard-long crowbar, using the tool's hook to gouge the flesh of his targets. Another slammed his truncheon onto...
...lecture, the crowd in Sanders gives her a brief but loud round of applause...
Badaracco presented the "Beavis and Butthead" case study to the class, including a description of the show, excerpts, information on the growth of the cable industry, some financial information and a brief overview of the arguments in favor and against the show...
...last Friday's case, the University made a brief effort to act. Harvard police were called to the scene, and officers questioned the student...