Word: shooed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...male colleagues in government. Convinced that Uchtenhagen was well qualified for the job, the Social Democratic Party nominated her to fill a vacancy left when one of the two Social Democrats on the Federal Council resigned. Under the unwritten rules of the magic formula, Uchtenhagen should have been a shoo...
...Americans in Yugoslavia, Hamilton, 25, is closest to a shoo-in for a gold medal. He finished fifth at Lake Placid in 1980, but since September of that year, he has won all his competitions, including four U.S. and three world championships. For all his easy-looking successes, Hamilton has had the inevitable emotional kinks to straighten out. "You have all these idealistic values about what a champion should be," he says, "and suddenly you're thrust into living up to it. I felt I could never let down. I drove myself crazy. I was terrible to myself...
...double standard concerning Soviet actions), it immediately apologized and offered compensation to the relatives of the victims. This was the civilized thing to do. When Aeroflot and other Eastern Bloc civilian airliners fly over restricted American airspace in order to test our response time, we scramble fighters and shoo them away, but we do not even consider shooting them down, for this is so outside the scope of international law and of our own morality that it would never become an issue...
...poll, analysts say, for the first time raises the possibility that Finnegan--long considered a shoo-in for the final--may finish third and fail to make the runoff. The former School Committee chairman and WBZ-radio talk show host has been hurt because many voters feel his campaign lacks substance...
Certainly, the two best known Olympic hopefuls are hockey stars Mark Fusco '83 and brother Scott '85 who were picked by Coach Lou Vairo in lane for the preliminary team Mark, last year's Hobey Baker Award winner as college hockey's top player, is a shoo in to make the final roster of 20 players. Scott will learn on September 15 whether he'll help defend the nation's Olympic title or return to Cambridge for his junior year...