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Word: overshadowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...furor over the condo issue tended to overshadow a few other interesting trends in last week's voting, trends that could be ascertained by watching the ballots pile up one after another in the pigeonholes reserved for each candidate. The most interesting developments included...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Counting Change in Cambridge 1981 | 11/10/1981 | See Source »

Ideologically, we oppose the whole idea of uniformed vigilantes mobilizing wherever they deem their presence is needed. Romantic visions of wild, wild West ranchers hunting down evil bandits should not overshadow other examples in our history of people taking the law into their own hands. The Ku Klux Klan, after all, lynched for the sake of Southern order and womanhood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bad Moon Rising | 10/7/1981 | See Source »

While the men and women in Byerly Hall may worry a bit about the effects of the preliminary Klitgaard report, they want to hold off final judgement until the final report is released. But even if the next version is wanted down, it may not overshadow any negative results of the preliminary draft. On the other hand, the lure of the Harvard name may reign supreme--provided the admissions office continues to disassociate itself from Klitgaard's opinions. "Students that plan to apply to Harvard," the Stuyvesant High School counselor insists, "will apply anyway...

Author: By Adam M. Gottlieb, | Title: Overcoming the Klitgaard Fallout | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...should see, to get closer to the city in which they live and to the other side of the issue which rings throughout newspapers and dining halls. Intellectual reevaluation of the politics of Harvard and America incites us, and rightly so, but the rhetoric we adopt can grow to overshadow the sadness and the personal alienation of the problem. The Dark End of the Street shows those very private feelings prompted by very public displays of racism and hate...

Author: By Eve M. Troutt, | Title: Another Side of Cambridge | 3/3/1981 | See Source »

...when it was shorthanded because of penalties. Afterward, President Carter phoned Coach Herb Brooks to say: "We were trying to do business, and nobody could. We were watching TV with one eye and Iran and the economy with the other." But even the thrilling hockey victory could not overshadow the accomplishments of a young and unassuming speed skater from the Midwest. Perhaps the most vivid single image of the 1980 Winter Games was the sight of Eric Heiden's heroically muscled thighs molded in a skating skin of gold as he stroked his way to five Olympic golds, five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: A Stunning Show, After All | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

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