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Word: cloud (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...makes a good stab, though. Like a student who hasn't done the week's reading but tries to answer a question in section, Axinn grabs onto broad, oft-used poetic ideas--like the wind, or the poet--and tries to surround the images and vignettes in a cloud of meaning. The result is little more than a patch of ground...

Author: By Naomi L. Pierce, | Title: Cloudy Verse | 10/13/1982 | See Source »

...event that precipitated the massacre at the Sabra and Shatila camps had occurred scarcely 72 hours earlier. At exactly 4:08 last Tuesday afternoon, an explosion in the heart of East Beirut shook buildings for blocks around. An instant later, a huge cloud of dust and smoke began to rise above a three-story structure whose ganglia lay exposed and bare. In the street outside, a Christian Phalangist member of the Lebanese parliament raised his hand to his mouth and cried "Ya Allah![My God!] That's the Kata...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Lebanon Crisis | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

...play to Donnie's strengths," Restic says), and hoping to move the ball on the ground against a tough UMass defense. Just because coach and quarterback are hoping to run effectively against the Minutemen, however, don't think the Crimson offense will be featuring a Callinan-and-a-cloud-of-dust offense. "I'm not afraid to throw the ball on first down," Allard says, and you can bet he will, especially off of a lot of play-action fakes...

Author: By Michael Bass, | Title: A Big Day For D.A. | 9/25/1982 | See Source »

While MATEP coughed and wheezed in Boston. Harvard raised another cloud of dust back home in Cambridge. The University undertook a massive renovation campaign that so far includes facelifts for two of the River Houses, refurbishing Sever Hall, rebuilding the football stadium, and knocking down Burr Hall to make way for a new wing of the Fogg Art Museum...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: What You Missed | 9/17/1982 | See Source »

While MATEP coughed and wheezed in Boston. Harvard raised another cloud of dust back home in Cambridge. The University undertook a massive renovation campaign that so far includes facelifts for two of the River Houses, refurbishing Sever Hall, rebuilding the football stadium, and knocking down Burr Hall to make way for a new wing of the Fogg Art Museum...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: What You Missed | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

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