Word: rare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NOTEBOOK: Harvard will meet Princeton and Cornell in a Thursday-Friday road trip... Harvard faces the Clemson Tigers May 10 in a rare visit by a national powerhouse. Fish calls it "the greatest thing to happen to Harvard tennis since the 1930s...
...President Bok usually picks his shots carefully. Bok likes to work quietly within the system, aiming to influence national policy, rather than state bold positions on issues of the day. However, in his Annual Report to the Board of Overseers released last week. Bok takes one of those rare shots--in this case against the American legal system and its methods of legal education...
Censuses have become part of modern life, whether the counted cared to have their noses tallied or not. But in a rare display of actuarial obstinacy, West Germans last week won a skirmish in a war that attacks the very concept of the national head count...
...North Vietnamese, the triumph of 1975 held the sweet promise of peace and prosperity; once those in the South realized that a vengeful bloodbath would not take place, they too believed that better times were ahead. Yet as the rare U.S. journalist allowed inside Viet Nam can attest, that hope has not come true. Instead of realizing Ho's dream of a land ten times as beautiful as before the war, the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, unifying North and South since July 1976, is vexed by troubles at home and abroad. Its economy struggles along, its 57 million...
...serious hat dies out regularly, like a rare bird. Then it is sighted only occasionally, resting, say, on Tom Wolfe's head, or disappearing down the street on the pate of a doddering banker. But it usually somehow struggles back. Fashion makes great lazy circles in time...