Word: short
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plan. At precisely 10 o'clock on Wednesday morning, Lieut. General Boris Gromov, the commanding officer of Soviet troops in Afghanistan, will walk alone across that steel bridge into Termez, the final Soviet soldier to leave Afghanistan. According to the daily Komsomolskaya Pravda, Gromov will then deliver a short, private speech that "would not be written down or listened to." Then he will continue on his way, "without looking back...
Sophomore center Bernard Jackson keyed the Cornell attack, scoring 10 points and pulling down 15 rebounds, all off the defensive boards. After missing three easy lay-ups earlier in the game, Jackson put Cornell ahead, 70-69, with two minutes left in regulation. His short hhok shot with 80 seconds remaining in overtime again gave the Big Red a lead...
...faculty meeting yesterday afternoon, professors gave Clark a "very warm and sustained round of applause," Bok said. While there were reportedly one or two holdouts who greeted the annoucement with indifference, Bok said he expected the controversy would be short-lived...
...ever be easy to hurry by the homeless when it's cold and dark, to avert your eyes when your own wallet is feeling the pinch of attending a high-priced university? How can we walk by, perhaps feeling guilty, but able to forget the incident a few short hours later...
...when it was reported in November that Clark was on the "short list" of nine candidates for the deanship, professors and students said he was an unlikely choice. They said appointing Clark would probably exacerbate existing conflicts, and doubted that Bok would choose such an outspoken professor...