Word: sharpened
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only 20.7 years-the youngest in U.S. Olympic hockey history. Leading the offense is "the Diaper Line": Center Pat LaFontaine, 18, and Wings David A. Jensen, 18, and Ed Olczyk, 17. LaFontaine, sweet-natured and teen-idol cute, left his home in Pontiac, Mich., in 1982 to sharpen his skills in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, where he scored 104 goals to break records set by Islander Mike Bossy and Montreal Canadien Guy Lafleur. The U.S. Olympic chief assistant coach, Tim Taylor of Yale, praises LaFontaine's See-ing-Eye hands: "He has a quick stick...
...Kodak products are a key part of the company's all-out drive to sharpen its focus. Kodak, says Chairman...
...racquetmen meet MIT at Hemenway Gym on Tuesday afternoon, but the team has relatively smooth sailing until it meets up with Princeton on February 25. Since upcoming matches should pose little challenge, the players will be entering individual outside tournaments to sharpen up their games...
...school students by invoking the legal doctrine of in loco parentis. In loco parentis is that nifty doctrine that lets school officials act as your own parents by, say, letting House Masters serve alcohol in the sherry hour, as your own parents presumably do in their own home. Administrators sharpen the double edge of this legal sword by claiming that acting in loco parentis--"in the place of your parents"--they can search students persons and lockers without constitutionally required warrants or probable cause...
...clashes between Mondale and Glenn laid bare four months before the primary season the deep-seated ideological differences between the two Democratic front runners. In large part, the showdown resulted because Glenn has been striving to sharpen his ill-defined image in the minds of Democratic voters. He is known mostly as an astronaut, an image that will be burnished this month with the release of the movie The Right Stuff, based on Tom Wolfe's bestselling book about the space program. To capitalize on the film's heroic depiction of Glenn as a young man, his aides...