Word: closers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meet's closer bouts, Crimson freshman Amy Neuhardt edged Rita Tabora, 5-4. Neuhardt fell behind 2-1, before battling back to take a 4-2 lead...
...idiosyncratic notion of marital fidelity: "There were plenty of attractive people around and it would be a shame and a waste not to find out what they were like with their clothes off." World War II offers Burgess nearly six years of wasted time in uniform; he gets no closer to combat than Gibraltar. Then it is on to teaching, including stints in England, Malaya and Brunei, before his death sentence and his decision to write as much as he could to provide for the support of his widow...
...whose sound has a sharper, harder edge. Woodwinds and brass now glitter where once they gleamed. At the same time, cellos and double basses purr where once they roared. Carnegie Hall now sounds crisper, although it still retains much of its fabled warmth. In its new incarnation, it is closer to Boston's lush but clear Symphony Hall than to its former voluptuous self...
...Baldie Ike made his mark in the military and then defeated Baldies Taft and Stevenson on his way to the White House. End of the baldie run.The barber almost saved Gerald Ford in the campaign of 1976. He had Ford dump the Vitalis, and then he trimmed the President closer on the sides and in the back, poufing up the thinning top. But by that time Ford had pardoned Nixon, and not even Pitts' magic could save...
There were only a few words on Iranscam. He expressed "one major regret" -- that his Iranian policy "did not work." Though he came closer than ever before to admitting that his Administration had been trading arms for U.S. hostages, he stopped far short of the apology that some of his staunchest supporters had suggested. Indeed, without ever mentioning that weapons sales had been involved, Reagan proclaimed defiantly, "Certainly it was not wrong to try to secure freedom for our citizens held in barbaric captivity." Six sentences later, with no apparent awareness of inconsistency, he pledged that the U.S. will never...