Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jones spent last year mired on the bench with a host of injuries. He even endured a brief, unsuccessful experiment at cornerback. It seemed that this season would be a break-out year for him until the latest injury...
Thernstrom said her interest in Tadesse resulted from a brief contact the two had while Thernstrom was teaching an English department seminar in 1992, for which Tadesse applied...
...Interpol, national police from half a dozen countries--through the decades and across the map of Europe and Scandinavia--they all chased Einhorn. There were stakeouts; interviews with monied acquaintances, including an international rock star and a billionaire socialite; and even a brief attempt by a vigilante cyberposse from Australia to stalk the computer junkie by Internet. Three times in those 16 years, police were close enough to feel his heat. Each time, Einhorn melted away. Now, in remote Champagne-Mouton, another chance...
...paper had time to get in only a relatively brief story and a photo. The headline, moreover, was a discreet single line across three columns (DIANA KILLED IN A CAR ACCIDENT IN PARIS), a far cry from the banners that ran in most other big-city newspapers. Granted more time, would the Times have given the story bigger play? Lelyveld, a pale, reserved man who seems to personify the good, gray image of the Times, flashes a half-smile. "Actually," he says, "I might have given it less...
Jones, who brings a big-play ability that the Harvard offense has lacked for a decade, ran behind an experienced offensive line that dominated Columbia in a manner heretofore unseen during the brief tenure of coach Tim Murphy...