Word: occasionally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like many a weary traveler, Norman Panish has had enough of delayed flights and airport lobbies packed with stranded passengers. Panish once arrived at London's Heathrow, he recalls, and saw "bodies strewn on the floor, literally thousands of people jammed in." When he was fogged in at New York...
The Harvard defense finally rose to the occasion, stopping Chirico cold on a crucial third down play. Larry Walsh then came in and booted a 21-yd. field goal to put the Lions up, 17-0.
Freshman Ramy Rajballie twice had open shots, but on each occasion was unable to put the ball on goal.
Passengers on the lower decks were not given a choice, and so, while almost all the women in first class escaped, nearly half of those in third class drowned. There was also an element of happenstance. Boat No. 1, which could have held 40 people, departed with only twelve. While...
What puzzles is Grant's sudden greatness, his rising to the occasion, and the brutality of his greatness, what might be called the bloody abstraction of it. It was as if Grant had rescinded some logic of cause and effect. Lincoln's best generals failed: refulgent characters like George McClellan...