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Word: pointedly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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After Friday's competition, the Crimson women (3-0) held a 24-point lead over Boston University, who had scored 20 points. At that point Haggerty said a victory would have to be attributed to the squad's depth...

Author: By Angela M. Payne, | Title: Harriers Take Greater Boston | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

Princeton goalie Kari Rosenkranz deflected a shot from Char Joslin at the point, and Simonds was there to put in the rebound. However, the goal was called back despite a rule which allows a player from the opposing team to be in the crease if the goalie...

Author: By Mia Kang, | Title: Icewomen Trip Up Tigers, 5-3 | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

...looked back and the goalie wasn't even in there," Simonds said. "It was really frustrating because we thought that it should have been our point...

Author: By Mia Kang, | Title: Icewomen Trip Up Tigers, 5-3 | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

MUCH of Bundy's language is in the mode of current foreign policy rhetoric. He uses the phrase "strategic survivability" to point to his belief that the nature of nuclear deterrent depends upon the characteristics--rather than the amount--of nuclear warheads. His thinking is slightly reminiscent of Reagan's "peace through strength" motto that asserts the need for an offensive system so powerful that it deters a first-strike attack. But the clear difference is that Bundy does not propose a widespread build-up, but rather "enough" on both sides so that neither nation can knock the other...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: Surviving With the Bomb | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

...hard to know whether George Bush or his foreign policy advisors will take the time to read Bundy's book--and Bundy takes care not to offer them any easy answers. Indeed, Danger and Survival's last chapter is entitled, "Hope," and it ends with Bundy's point that "Our survival in the first 50 years of danger offers encouragement to renewed pursuit of truth, resolute practice of courage, and persistance in lively hope...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: Surviving With the Bomb | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

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