Word: instants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...later, the University awarded him an honorary degree. The official proclamation read, "In an era of instant news, he is a preeminent figure in contemporary journalism, friendly, reliable, percipient, forever telling us 'the way it is,"' and President Bok referred to him as "the most trusted man in America...
Penn blew four game points, and Harvard failed to convert two before putting the match away. Then with the Crimson ahead, 20-19, it was time for an instant replay of the final seconds of last week's match against Albany State, which Harvard...
...took McKellen perhaps ten seconds to absorb all this. It took him an additional five seconds to reproduce it and just an instant more to top it. He curled his mouth so it looked like a squeezed citrus. His eyelids shut down like blinds, into a squint, his hands shriveled into a kind of angular cupped shape, somewhere between a claw and a crotch, and he started throwing off lines from Amadeus. He became, in almost supersonic succession, the man at the neighboring table, then the character he has been playing in Peter Shaffer's smash Broadway play...
...Harvard hockey team has forgotten Mark Whiston's scary first period-and-a-half in the Crimson nets. They don't think it's important that when Greg Olson scored six minutes into the second period, it had been seven goals and two weeks since any line but Instant Karma had been on the ice for a Harvard redlighter...
...President was placed on an operating stand, and several doctors worked on him from about 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. The body remained on the table at all times. I never left the room even for an instant. The part of your story stating that everyone was ordered out of the room is incorrect. No one ever told me to leave, or had the authority to do so. After the mortician finished his work, we placed the President's body in the new casket that had been sent...