Word: nosedives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the lanky prisoner aboard a New Year's Eve flight from St. Croix to New York City complained of feeling sick, one of his three guards escorted him to the lavatory. The prisoner emerged brandishing a snub-nosed handgun. He disarmed his guards--two of whom had black belts...
The two guards, perfectly matched in the backcourt as the shoot the lights out big guard and the "hard-nosed" ballhandler (as Ferry calls Smith), didn't play much together at DeMatha, however.
MIAMI VICE (NBC). Unlike most of the season's new shows, this hard-nosed police series has actually improved since its pilot. The first network series since Hill Street Blues to establish a unique look and tone: an alluring mix of cinema verite grit and rock-video glitz.
Alan Simpson of Wyoming, a popular and witty conservative, easily won election as majority whip. But two Northeastern moderates, Rhode Island's John Chafee and Pennsylvania's John Heinz, nosed out Western Conservatives Jake Garn of Utah and Malcolm Wallop of Wyoming for the chairmanships of the Republican...
It's hard to resist the conclusion that he campaign to secure Harvard's purity by driving the Clubs out is simply a latter day exercise in the Puritanism of our forebears. Like those blue-nosed, grimvisaged zealors, some now cannot abide the notion that any should live by standards...