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Word: facing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard Square isn't what it used to be. Once, college students had manners. Harvard men wore ties and blazers; Radcliffe women had to wear gloves in public--or face demerits...

Author: By Wendy R. Meltzer, | Title: Half-century Veterans Chronicle Changes | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

TURNING DOWN the CIA does nothing to pressure the intelligence agency to change its ways. Instead, it would slap the CIA in the face--as it, ironically, moves toward greater openness...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: Secrecy and Freedom | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

...shooting at me. A soldier, his face hidden in the shadow of his helmet, raised an automatic rifle and fired. His bullets were hitting everywhere, and the fragments of glass and pavement were bouncing off my body. I have never been so aware of anything as I was at that moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Dec. 14, 1987 | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

...coax comedy from character instead of tossing it grenade-like under the viewer's seat, and Tom Grunick is a far subtler creature of malice than Bud or Gekko. But Brooks is agitated about the state of network news. He is unsettled by the marriage of the comely face and the bottom line. He is disturbed by the new big boys on Media Avenue -- not just in the news, and not just in broadcasting -- who believe that ideas are digestible only in 15-second sound bites, that manners and life-styles are matters of life and death, that pictures tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Season Of Flash And Greed | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

...would be very easy for the Crimson to look past the Judges toward the rest of the schedule. Later this week, Harvard flies out to California to face Stanford on Friday. The squad then returns to the East Coast to take on Duke, Monday, in Durham...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Men Cagers Want Good Judges' Verdict | 12/12/1987 | See Source »

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