Word: shortcut
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recently proposed city ordinance would ban bicycle riding on the Cambridge Common, cutting off a popular shortcut for residents of Quad houses and first years living in 29 Garden...
...trek most make at least four times a day. According to an informal Crimson investigation, it takes six minutes and 866 steps to make the walk from 29 Garden St. to the Yard's North Gate. The walk would take even longer if you don't take the shortcut through the Cambridge Common...
Almost all the city councillors supported the tunnel, yet for over three hours the debate continued, not so much over whether to grant the shortcut, but over a long list of MIT-Cambridge issues...
...Angeles heads north toward Alaska, it scrapes against the plate carrying most of the rest of the U.S., sticking for years and then suddenly spurting forward. Near Palm Springs, the San Andreas Fault makes a jog to the west, suggesting that it may be trying to take a shortcut along a new line of least resistance and that eventually the section near Los Angeles may quiet down. That's the good news. Unfortunately, it's not likely to happen for another 50 million years...
...Texas Connection (Texas Connection Co.; 323 pages; $21.95), Craig I. Zirbel claims to provide the "final answer" on Johnson's role. Zirbel says Johnson probably organized the murder with a group of right-wing oilmen as a shortcut to the Oval Office. The author provides no persuasive evidence to support the allegation, relying instead on the argument that Johnson was a murderer because he had the turpitude to behave like one. Zirbel ticks off Johnson's egomania, drinking habits and philandering as examples of his "violations of moral rules." The author dismisses opposing speculations of why Kennedy was killed, saying...