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Word: crisping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson (2-2-1 overall, 1-1-0 Ivy) controlled the play with a crisp passing attack led by center midfielder Tracy Hackeling and three-time All-Ivy sweeper Andrea Montalbano. But Harvard could not generate scoring opportunities, and failed to cash...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: M. Booters to Take on UConn | 10/3/1989 | See Source »

...beautiful day for a wedding -- crisp, clear and, for China in midsummer, relatively cool. The latest typhoon's high winds have swept away the air pollution, and under a brilliant blue sky the guests are chatting in the hollow of a terraced field beside a single spindly tree -- symbolic decoration in a country whose scant arable land continues to disappear. Arranged neatly alongside the makeshift altar, the gifts intended for the bride's parents include a new refrigerator, a 24-in. color television set and a jet black Yamaha motorcycle. The presents are ogled, but atop the TV a photograph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day in The Life . . . . . . Of China: Free to Fly Inside the Cage | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

True, the sun was shining an autumn chill was settling in, and the air was crisp and clean...

Author: By Angela M. Payne, | Title: UConn Overcomes Stickwomen, 2-1 | 9/29/1989 | See Source »

What is fuzzy logic? The original concept, developed in the mid-'60s by Lofti Zadeh, a Russian-born professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, is that things in the real world do not fall into the neat, crisp categories defined by traditional set theory, like the set of even numbers or the set of left-handed baseball players. In standard Aristotelian logic, as in computer science, membership in a class or set is not a matter of degree. Either a number is even, or it is not. But this on-or-off, black-or- white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Time For Some Fuzzy Thinking | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...squads followed a similar script in the second stanza, as the Engineers equalled their opening-period barrage of two shots on goal. Harvard added two more tallies for the final margin--one on a crisp passing play from Mills to Enge to D'Onofrio, the other on a nifty move past two defenders and subsequent blast into the upper corner by reserve midfielder Don "Day-Glo" Daigle to close out the scoring...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: M. Booters Derail Engineers in Season Opener, 4-0 | 9/15/1989 | See Source »

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