Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Princeton had eight points for the Harvard match and two for the Yale match for 10 points. The Crimson gained one point for the Princeton match and six points against Yale for seven points...
...final match was a thriller with neither fencer able to gain more than a one-point advantage. And after a double-touch (each fencer getting a point), the contest was even...
Tower conceded that there was a point in hislife when he changed his drinking habits, and inan unprecedented display by a former senator, theonetime chair of the Armed Services Committee andU.S. arms control negotiator described his pastlifestyle to the nation...
...presidential predilection for the crunchy puffs of pigskin is bringing fresh popularity to what was previously regarded as a regional delicacy of the South. The snack is made by cooking small pieces of pigskin and dunking the shrunken pellets in fat heated to 400 degrees F. At that point they explode like popcorn...
...conflict cut to the heart of Muslim and Judeo-Christian values, with centuries of cultural misunderstanding and mistrust finding a flash point in Rushdie's novel. After Khomeini's call to murder, many Muslim leaders worldwide disagreed with the ferocity of his action, but none had a friendly word for Rushdie, his literary intentions or his right to free speech. To be sure, few of his prosecutors had read the book, as the author pointed out repeatedly; most seemed to feel they had learned enough from printed excerpts or merely word of mouth to convict the author of blasphemy compounded...