Word: crushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...McNavy), act like two adolescents in love for the first time. After Cardew leaves Algernon, whom she has just met, she says deridingly that "a momentary separation from someone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable." But their costumes are distasteful and their overly innocent manners crush Wilde's lines to triteness...
...highly promising. Two million tickets had been sold as of last week. Before the end of the year, ten million visitors are expected to pay admissions that range from $10.80 for adults down to $6.50 for children under twelve, about the same as Disney U.S. ticket prices. The crush is expected to be so great that, for the first time in any Disney park, a reservation system has been established so people can buy specific time slots in the park in advance, much as they would buy tickets to a concert...
...didn't play so well today," added Co-Captain Jon Mosle. "We always crush MIT in golf." The Techies sliced their Mass. Ave rivals by 3 strokes...
...months ago, Mugabe's government sent an armed force led by the North Korean-trained Fifth Brigade into Matabeleland, the Ndebele homeland in the southwestern part of the country, to crush a rising tide of resistance and lawlessness. The soldiers, most of whom are Shona tribesmen, killed hundreds of Ndebele civilians. Two weeks ago, the Fifth Brigade moved into the suburbs of Bulawayo, the main city in Matabeleland, and conducted house-to-house searches for dissidents. The soldiers even invaded Nkomo's home, where they killed an employee and ransacked the property. That night Nkomo, who had gone...
...holy war against Soviet evil, Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger '38 made public the Admistration's plan to send $110 million in military aid to El Salvador, twice the amount the White House had previously requested. But Weinberger and Reagan are wasting their time training Salvadoran government troops to crush the rebelling peasants: the regime's strongman, Roberto d' Aubuisson, has already made his wishes explicitly clear. "All I want from the USA is napalm," he has said. "We must destroy completely to achieve pacification...