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Word: fleetingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Standing before Congress in his triumph, George Bush would not have thought of the line that General George Patton (the real Patton's words, spoken by George C. Scott) uttered at the end of the movie, after Patton's dazzling tank dash across Belgium and Germany to defeat Hitler's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Desert Storm's Troops: Triumphant Return | 3/18/1991 | See Source »

For a fleeting moment in the middle of the second stanza, it looked like Harvard would climb back into the contest. Donato seized the puck in the Crimson zone and sent an unexpected slapshot up the middle to Ted Drury, who was at the B.U. blue line The Leverett House...

Author: By Daniel L. Jacobowitz, | Title: Caught With Your Defense Down | 11/21/1990 | See Source »

But Restic's dreams of a comeback were fleeting. The Crimson offense slipped back into the stumbling, bumbling style of play that characterized its efforts throughout its loss to the Big Green here at Memorial Field Saturday. Hirsch's reception and Johnson's run on that drive accounted for 59...

Author: By M.d. Stankiewicz, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Inoffensive Offense | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

However, thoughts of a bid to the 12-team NCAA tournament are fleeting, according to Caples. Last year, five teams from the region qualified for the tourney, but "it's very unlikely" that more than four will be named to the field this year, Harvard's third-year coach said...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Stickwomen Break Back Into National Rankings | 10/25/1990 | See Source »

In Japan the epic slide of the Tokyo stock market began with fear of rising interest rates at home, and has been accelerated by rocketing oil prices abroad. Tokyo's Nikkei index has fallen from its peak of 38,915 last December to a closing price of 22,828 last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Shook Up | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

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