Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sooner had President Reagan taken to television with the announcement that the U.S. had joined forces with six small Caribbean countries to invade Grenada than the press scrambled to do its job. Within hours, the first wave of more than 300 newspaper, magazine, wire-service, radio and television journalists were arriving on the island of Barbados, which, though some 160 miles northeast of the action, was the closest they could get. But there were no pictures of the combat on television screens that night or the next night, nor any dispatches from newspaper reporters on the ground. Members...
...council leaked a story that Feldstein had been forced to alter two speeches and "throw away" a third one because of White House censorship. Top Administration officials have been hinting that Feldstein, who plans to return to his teaching post at Harvard next September, should quit sooner...
...Oklahoma last season he was much more than that, gaining 905 yds. rushing, the record for a Sooner freshman. But it was not enough for Coach Barry Switzer. Dupree scored on runs of 63 yds. against Texas, 75 against Kansas, 30 against Oklahoma State, 80 against Kansas State, 70 against Missouri and 86 against Nebraska. He also returned a punt 77 yds. against Colorado. However, Switzer judged Dupree to be fat (233 lbs.) and lazy, and the coach seemed to blame him personally for a 32-21 loss to Arizona State in the Fiesta Bowl. "He gained 239 yards," Switzer...
...military concerns-strategic defense of our own territory, participation in NATO's defense of Western Europe, and protection of world sea lanes. We are treaty bound to defend Europe, where more than a quarter of our army is based. Moreover, events in Europe have historically reached across the Atlantic sooner or later. It is impossible to imagine a severing of our defense commitment to NATO, although small alteration are always possible. Much of the rest, and most of the Air Force, is based in the U.S. The Navy patrols all the world's major bodies of water, including vital areas...
...forced to stay overnight for observation because, said one doctor, they had drunk enough that they could have died. The judgement of staging such an initiation in the first place is questionable, but the officers were certainly negligent in not sensing the seriousness of the situation and stopping it sooner...