Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard had four key opportunities to pick up the necessary points to defeat the Lions. But the Crimson was short on all four races--the 100, 200 and 500 freestyles, and the 200 breaststroke. All the events were decided by less than one second...
...UNDERSTAND that the libraries on campus are short of space. New books are published every day. Some of them are important. Others, just like obnoxious children, are lovable only to their parents...
...that I cheered. I actually jumped up on my seat when Harvard scored. I screamed. I felt happy when we were winning. I exchanged high fives with the people sitting next to me. I felt depressed when Yale started coming back. I ran onto the field afterwards. In short, I displayed school spirit...
Almost alone among his contemporaries, Malamud was equally gifted at the novel and short story. In some moods he preferred the short form: "In a few pages a good story portrays the complexity of a life while producing the surprise and effect of knowledge -- not a bad payoff." All the stories salvaged here are good, and so is the payoff...
...sector woke on the morning of Aug. 13, 1961, to find families sundered and the city rived by barbed wire -- and soon concrete -- many frantically sought routes of escape. The Berlin Wall was meant to halt a tide of migrants to the West that had left East Germany short of workers and threatened the stability of the Communist regime: more than 2.7 million had departed since the founding of the German Democratic Republic in 1949, 30,000 in July 1961 alone...