Word: spiralled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Armageddon notwithstanding, undergraduate politicos immediately split into opposing camps. The majority praised Kennedy's dramatic response, while a small but vocal leftist camp portrayed "a spiral of hostility" willfully accelerated by the White House...
...large demonstrations and widespread repression do occur this week, there could be a new spiral of violence that might ultimately prompt Soviet-bloc intervention. But if the regime succeeds in scaring people off the streets, its next move could be the formal banning of Solidarity. Either way, the prospects of reviving the dream of freedom that was born in Gdansk two years ago seemed dimmer than ever...
...purity of her adopted American Southwest. And now, at the age of 94, O'Keeffe has turned anew to a medium she all but abandoned in 1917: sculpture. Apparently inspired by her assistant and acolyte, Juan Hamilton, 36, O'Keeffe finally completed Abstraction, an 11-ft. spiral of painted cast aluminum. Now on display in a sculpture show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, her first major work as a sculptor gives her further claim to the title of doyenne of American...
...story on the global slump [July 19], your economists did not stress the fact that huge expenditures on arms around the world, except in Japan, are absorbing the productive capacity of nations. President Reagan is right about cutting domestic spending: the upward spiral had to be stopped. But replacing it with an arms race is madness...
...sports fan briefly described here spent a year working on his spiral pass as a result of his little caper, and you will get the boot for less-obvious academic violations as well. Harvard takes these stipulations more seriously than it does rules about party notes. Perhaps the most famous disciplining of the past 5o years involved none other than the current senior U.S. Senator from the Bay State. Young Ted Kennedy '54 (but actually '56) didn't feel up for a Spanish exam and had a buddy take it for him. Only Ted decided to spend the morning munching...