Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Using fact sheets about the war, the SDSnational office initiated a brief and largelyunsuccessful movement against the national exam...
Rostenkowski was born into the machine culture; his father Joe was a Chicago alderman and ward boss. After a brief fling at playing minor-league baseball, Dan served in the Illinois legislature before going to Congress in 1959. His wife LaVerne stayed in Chicago, so Rostenkowski commuted home on weekends. But for years he would stop first at city hall to brief Mayor Richard J. Daley on his doings...
...years of abuse. Furthermore, because of the stringencies of an Iranian-Jewish culture, Hanoukai felt trapped: he killed Manijeh because he was not allowed to divorce her. The jury empathized and found Hanoukai guilty only of voluntary manslaughter. Instead of 15 years to life, he may serve as brief a prison term as 4 1/2 years...
...while, everything was so quiet. The first week or so of the 12-day Cannes Film Festival proceeded as sedately as a Riviera quilting bee. Nice little films from odd little countries made some brief impression on the 30,000 assembled producers, distributors and journalists, only to be filed away and forgotten. Celebrities of the high second rank -- France's Isabelle Adjani, Britain's Terence Stamp, China's Gong Li -- stopped by to promote their films and to underline, by their presence, the absence of any world- class megastars except for Clint Eastwood, who was serving as president of this...
...Nelson went away -- went back to Lincoln, Nebraska, in fact, after a brief tour with the newspaper. A year passed, and then the other day a Fleet Street reporter took a run at McCarthy at Luby's Cafeteria, where he sat with his coffee and his soup and his periodicals. "I'm sorry, son," said McCarthy, "but you're asking me to do something I just...