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Word: fasted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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After two goals in 19 seconds, the scoring stopped for more than 12 minutes as the teams engaged in a fast, clean, but uneven exchange of play. Finally, MacDonald put home a rebound, with assists going to defensemen Josh Caplan and Don Sweeney...

Author: By Nick Wurf, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icemen Freeze Bulldogs, 4-1; Up Record to 10-0 on Season | 12/13/1986 | See Source »

...plot is a fast-paced blend of theatrical parody, stock farce, and typical British silliness. Frederick (Lee Eichen), ex-apprentice to a gang of nice-guy pirates, is torn between loyalty to his former masters and his moral duty to turn them in. To complicate matters, he has fallen in love with the daughter (Lisa Zeidenberg) of the local Major General (Andrew Gardner) who is bent on the pirates' destruction. How does Frederick escape from this frightfully sticky wicket? Suffice to say that the resolution is as silly as it is stirring...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: A Victorian Big-Budget Spectacular | 12/12/1986 | See Source »

Consecutive fast-break lay-ups by Neil Phillips and Mike Geilen--the latter coming off a perfectly timed, behind-the-back pass from Co-Captain Arne Duncan--gave the cagers an early 16-7 advantage. But that was only a preview of what Harvard (now 2-3 on the year) had to offer...

Author: By Geoffrey Simon, | Title: Streaking Cagers Bludgeon Judges, 79-63; Nail Down Second Straight Home Victory | 12/9/1986 | See Source »

...jockeys and always seemed to be on the move. Once, after arranging to meet someone for a drink, he showed up 45 minutes late, barked, "Okay, bottoms up and pay the bill," and abruptly announced that he needed a car and driver for a trip to the airport -- and fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hard Fall for a Man of Action | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

There is still time to avoid the worst consequences, though only if the Administration pushes its own investigations hard enough and fast enough to convince its critics that it has at last provided a full and convincing explanation of its activities, and one that does not spare the highest officials. "I think one iron rule in situations like this is, whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately," said Henry Kissinger last week. "Anybody who eventually has to go should be fired now. Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now, or as quickly as possible, because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Was Betrayed? | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

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