Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...droning on about wrestling in book after book, comes drearily to mind, and the hope here is that Jones, a former Marine who was an amateur boxer, has said all, or nearly all, he has to say about getting punched in the nose. But for the range of this brief collection, the author's focus on tough, self-wounded guys works fine...
During Armine's brief career as a prostitute she entertained two to three customers a night, almost all of them foreigners. In recent years Europeans, Australians, Japanese and Americans have flocked to Southeast Asia by the thousands to engage in sex acts with Thai, Filipino and Sri Lankan youngsters that would win them a jail term in their home countries...
...subcommittees [make] a brief report in writing, which is presented for discussion at the next meeting of the visiting committee," he says. "We just began the process of subcommittee visitation in the law school this spring...
...brief while, MacKinnon's case energized student protesters, who took the faculty's rejection of her as a sign that there are still problems with, and deep divisions within, the Law School faculty...
...Black applicants to the Class of 1997, Harvard's image as an intolerant and racist institution was based only on hearsay until they made their first visit to Cambridge. Within the period of their brief stays, however, both experienced their first personal encounters with racism, incidents that tainted their first impressions of Harvard...