Word: sided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...panicked, fumbling with the throttle controls and hitting the afterburners. I was slammed into the back of my seat. I tried to steer the plane against the oncoming tide of planes and missiles and I banked the craft hard to one side. I tried to steer the other way and the plane began to do about 123,000 barrel rolls. And then I got shot down, and it felt like an earthquake hit the machine...
...then I was at Yale Bowl. The place looked like a circus. With The Game as the event under the Big Top, there were many side shows. I saw some Harvard-Yale soccer, bumped into many friends, ate a UC-sponsored hamburger, bought a large load of peanuts and a half pint of Puerto Rican rum made by the company my great-grandfather used...
Luck Is On Our Side...
...next Harvard rush up ice, sophomore Char Joslin took control of the puck at the blue line and flipped it to junior Brita Lind, who was cutting toward the slot. Lind beat Providence goaltender Claire Smith to the glove side to tie the score...
Even so, some items seemed agreeable to both parties. Neither side wanted to raise revenues by increasing rates on income taxes, which the President would almost certainly veto. "They say the first things the man downtown will ask are 'What kind of taxes are there?' and 'How much are they?' " acknowledged Republican Senator Bob Packwood of Oregon. Thus any new taxes will include the closing of loopholes, the imposition of larger fees for Government services, and similarly innocuous revenue raisers. For example, under the Democratic proposal, the income tax deduction for interest on home- equity loans would be limited...