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Word: interrupting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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This weekend, the netmen were forced to interrupt their reading period activities to toy with two Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis Association (EITA) opponents. Army and Cornell, in preparation for the Crimson's May 15 participation in the NCAA Nationals competition...

Author: By Andy Doctoroff, | Title: Netmen Overwhelm Army and Cornell; Harvard Qualifies for NCAA Nationals | 5/10/1982 | See Source »

While the HULSA was indeed seeking to interrupt the free exchange of ideas, the GSA was reacting to an attack by a University official against the rights of gay people to live their lives free from fear, harassment, and discrimination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Simplistic Comparison | 5/5/1982 | See Source »

LACROSSE--The main purpose of this sport is to maim the opponent as severely as possible. Wailing on a player's head, however, is forbidden since it could result in a broken stick--and that would interrupt the flow of the game. You can easily spot a lacrosse player by his toughness and lack of knees...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: The Smell of Spring | 4/28/1982 | See Source »

...still alive. As we headed for the easy chairs, he said: "I don't look bad, but God has sent me an invitation." Somehow it did not seem incongruous that the dialectician of materialism should invoke the Deity. No being of lesser rank could presume to interrupt the Chairman's labors. Even more striking was the casualness with which Mao treated the imminent end of his rule and hinted at the urgency to complete certain business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPARTEE WITH MAO | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

...private anguish of cash woman cuts her off from any relief as she retreats further and further into her own shame, imposing a double exile; her own and the world's What is left these people who have chosen to continue rather than to interrupt and redirect their lives, is a bewilderment of absolute intensity. The incident goes deeper and deeper until there is only in their lives this sharp hart which is felt as a sadness that seems to have no cause, that haunts them, that gives them throughout a sense of somewhere having failed, of always being under...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Abortion | 3/8/1982 | See Source »

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