Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seeming disapproval in the form of torrential rain, I refused to be thwarted and took the "Champagne Special" shuttle from Currier. I was surprised to see everyone all dressed up. Suits and ties? Excuse me? Isn't this the Freshman Union, the one with Teddy Roosevelt's antlers (cut right from his head!) and the butter pats of Damocles? Is there a Bar Mitzvah in the private dining room...
...Julie an official honorary member of the D.U.? Oh, you have to have sex with all the members? Well, how many does she have left? How can Joe be in the Pi? Isn't there a minimum drinking requirement? Besides, I thought he was cut from the team. Oh, I hope Mary tells us another spine-tingling tale of action and adventure involving her research on cell division...
...early Princeton sprint with 500 meters remaining in the race cut the Radcliffe lead back down to two seats but the Black and White responded with an early sprint of its own--with about 50 strokes remaining in the race instead of the usual 30--to take back the comfortable lead...
Expediency is often the father of contention. In a hurried effort to placate Jesse Jackson at last summer's Democratic Convention, Michael Dukakis and his forces ratified significant changes in the party's complex rules governing presidential nominating procedures. One alteration would drastically cut the number of superdelegates, party leaders who automatically become unpledged delegates. Another requires that all primaries and caucuses award delegates on the basis of proportional representation, as opposed to giving extra delegates to the winner in some state contests...
...there is another Alaska -- a land of mining towns and tourist boats, of developers and exploiters. Gradually, but inexorably, oil rigs encroached upon the wilderness, and a huge pipeline now snakes its way across the icy expanses where caribou roam. Loggers have cut ever deeper into the lush forests, and fishermen have cast ever wider nets off the winding shores. From Prudhoe Bay in the north to Anchorage in the south, swarms of settlers have tapped the state's wealth as fast as they could...