Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days earlier in San Francisco, firecrackers had gone off, causing reporters to worry about the candidate's safety. Gorey remembers Kennedy's response: "If someone wants to get me, I guess he will." On the night of the California primary, Gorey was walking toward Kennedy when the candidate was cut down in the pantry of a Los Angeles hotel. "I heard these pop-pop-pop sounds like firecrackers," Gorey says. "But instinctively you knew this time it was the real thing...
...provoked Daley's police to rage. There were unarticulated class antagonisms at work -- many of the demonstrators being children of comparative affluence, the police coming from the city's blue-collar and ethnic neighborhoods. The adrenaline of that difference gave the clubs more force when the cops at last cut loose and went after the kids' ribs and skulls...
...Harvard comeback effort managed to cut into a 23-point deficit, 68-45, and bring it within 11 by the end of the game...
...time a fatal kidney ailment cut short Andropov's tenure in early 1984, Gorbachev was already a candidate to succeed his former mentor. At Andropov's funeral, Gorbachev made a telling gesture of his closeness to the late General Secretary: he was the only Politburo member publicly to console Andropov's bereaved widow Tatyana. But the Old Guard made a final stand, choosing Chernenko instead. Gorbachev went along, and even agreed to make the nominating speech. He probably knew his turn would come soon enough. Ailing and 72, Chernenko was not going to last long. In fact, through much...
...kept veering back to the gathering Wall Street storm that threatened to destroy everything he had worked to achieve over the past decade. By the time Black Monday was over and Lynch realized the full magnitude of what had happened, he knew his Irish vacation would have to be cut short. By 6 a.m. the next morning Lynch was on his way to Shannon Airport, pondering the stunning news that in the two business days he had been away, Fidelity Magellan's assets had plunged by 28%, from $10.7 billion to $7.7 billion...