Word: short
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--President Bush's veto of a bill to provide abortion assistance to impoverished victims of rape and incest was sustained in the House yesterday as a 231-191 vote to override him fell 51 votes short of the necessary two-thirds margin...
...year ago, opponents of Reagan's presidency said that Reagan's legacy would be the burgeoning federal budget deficit, regression on civil rights, the right-wing tilt of federal courts and our deteriorating environment--in short, the destruction of America's future...
...seconds remaining was his fourth attempt of the game. Kotz, who played in the Ivy-clinching 14-10 win over Yale two years ago, had earlier made a 19-yd. field goal in the first quarter, had a 38-yarder blocked in the second quarter and was well short on a 48-yd. attempt in the third quarter...
MOST first-year students view randomization in the short term. They wonder if they will get into the house of their choice, or at most, if they will still like the house when they are seniors...
...this one bat (Johnny Bench model, 30-ouncer) that I made sure was always properly placed in our team's equipment bag. I almost hit my only real home run (you know, when the ball actually goes into the trees on no bounces) with it. The pitcher was this short loudmouth who looked like Emmanuel Lewis with a James Brown hairdo. I hit the ball into the center field trees and began my first true home run trot, just like the big leaguers. But as I rounded second, the umpire told me to stop, ruling that the ball bounced into...