Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That message was easy to lose sight of in a year when so much happened that was treated like it meant so little. But for one brief period, people cared and cut through the minutiae--a Supreme Court seat was denied to a man who had spoken out against civil rights and denounced landmark equal access legislation. But in an irony that was befitting for the year, and surely gave pleasure to the cynics who invented that bumper sticker slogan, Bork was successfully followed by a jurist who, once confirmed, cast a vote challenging the core of federal civil rights...
...most exciting thing was playing in the NCAA Tournament," Felsen says. "The last four years, we've come so close to making it. The year before I got here, there was a 12-team tournament. But the NCAA has cut back so much...
...University had cut ties to the clubs in 1984, but this failed to address the real problem of exclusion, leaving the clubs right in the geographic center of campus as a major force in social life. Officially, Harvard can take no blame for the sexism, but neither can it take credit...
Arias confronted Ortega head on, asking him if he was willing to make concessions, says Peter Hakim, staff director of the Washington, D.C.-based think tank, Inter-American Dialogue. If not, then it would be better for the leaders to go right to dinner and cut the meeting short, Arias said, according to Hakim...
...consider myself as any great singer. I just do what I like to do. It makes other people happy, and that makes me happy. But up until the time I came up here, I was still very insecure about the way I sang. I was in a group--we cut a record--and I hated singing lead...