Word: slaying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ourselves. In the back of our scheming little minds, we begin to think we can actually prevent them from happening at all. With increasingly sophisticated technology, we can begin to label disasters with the tag, "worst-ever," "strongest of the decade," etc. And then we marshal our resources to slay these larger and larger dragons...
...meeting to select Moscow's conference delegation. But in the same speech he blamed "inertia and old-style methods of management through command and pressure" for failures in the economy. In other words, the fault lay with both sides, and he was a clear-eyed St. George prepared to slay the dragons of right and left. Asked Gorbachev: "What should we do in the face of this situation? Above all, we should not panic and should not quiver and tremble. In this cause, comrades, too much emotion is what we do not need...
Bucknell is just ahead of Harvard in the rankings, holding the number nine spot, and the two teams appear about evenly matched. It looks like the Crimson will have to slay the Bison to achieve its goal...
...well below the high-snow mark of twelve at both the 1932 and 1980 Lake Placid Games, but not far off the average haul of eight. Evidently, the quadrennial depression from national winter shortcomings is no more memorable than the average American luge run. Still, George vowed to slay the dragon of Olympic mediocrity: "We should go after ((excellence)) and spare no expense." So with baseball an exhibition sport this summer in Seoul, would Owner Steinbrenner donate an ace Yankee hurler during the pennant stretch for the sake of national glory? Sure -- "if the other owners did." Pause. Hmm. Well...
...Part of her secret may be that glorious smile. She has superb technique based on first-rate ballet training, but she makes even a triple throw look spontaneous. She has the innocence and sheer energy that enable her, like earlier East bloc sweethearts Olga Korbut and Nadia Comaneci, to slay hearts on both sides of the Great Power divide...