Word: spate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Clayton's lawyers sought to paint a picture of an Honor Committee concerned with a spate of bad publicity and under pressure to convict someone. In April 1979, The Daily Princetonian released a controversial poll which said that one-third of undergraduates had cheated on an exam...
...with My Harvard, My Yale, the newest of a recent spate of compilations of Harvard memoirs. Last spring saw the publication of Our Harvard, in which prominent alumni reflected on their Cambridge years. The Harvard Book (a new edition of an old high-school prize chestnut), and Sons of Harvard, which considered the undergraduate experience of gay alumni. This one's contribution to the literature is its inclusion of equal time from the competition: half the book (the second half, be assured) is given over to essays by ex-New Haven residents...
...Britain, where news of last week's military successes was greeted with increased national pride, the idea of losing seemed far, far away. Britons were basking in the afterglow of the historic papal visit, which lifted spirits everywhere, and enjoying a spate of warm, sunny weather. The Queen went to the Epsom derby and smiled. There was even good economic news: inflation dropped into the single digits for the first time since Thatcher took office...
...sudden spate of attacks, British warplanes swept in over Port Stanley, the Falklands' tiny capital, and struck at the 4,000-ft. airstrip held since Argentina invaded the islands on April 2. First came a long-range, delta-winged Vulcan bomber from a base at Ascension Island, some 3,800 miles away. The Vulcan refueled in the air on the way to its target, dropped 21 half-ton bombs and, said a British defense official in London, left the airfield "severely cratered...
Unaccustomed to assistance from terrorists, some officials wonder if the jailed Red Brigades may actually be spreading false information in order to confuse their captors. Cesare di Lenardo, a duro arrested in the Dozier kidnaping, accused the police of using torture to extract information. More likely, the spate of confessions is due in part to a proposed new law that could reduce the sentence of cooperative prisoners found guilty of murder or kidnaping to as little as twelve years. Most of the information provided by the terrorists has proved accurate...