Word: spiralling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PROVIDENCE, R.I.--Crimson quarterback Brian White dropped back to pass in the second quarter Saturday and spotted split end Mike Madden open nine yards downfield. White hung tough under heavy pressure, and jetted a spiral towards Madden...
...reasoning behind the spiral of political activism desired by many Harvard members is still mostly cloudy. Many members of our community do not seem prepared to relinquish their scholarly claim to independence as they push for increased Harvard interaction with the community. It appears that many Harvard members believe you can have your cake and eat it, too, as long as you shelter behind the protective shield of veritas...
...Soviets deep concern. But if he now totally refuses to budge on Star Wars, the President runs the risk of touching off the costliest surge yet in the arms race. Without some accord on space weapons, the superpowers could get caught in what is known as an offense-defense spiral: each side proliferates offenses to penetrate the other's new or improved defenses, and adds defenses to protect itself against the other's increasingly sophisticated offenses. That is the classic formula for strategic instability and nuclear brinkmanship. For a President hoping to go down in history as a peacemaker...
...Lagos during an attempted coup and persuaded them to surrender. It was he too who masterminded the army coup that, on the last day of 1983, toppled Shehu Shagari, the civilian President whose winking acceptance of endemic corruption had helped plunge oil-rich Nigeria into a still continuing spiral of poverty. Last week Babangida was in the vanguard of yet another takeover, only this time he took the prize for himself. In a carefully planned coup, the short, stocky general from central Nigeria was installed as President of Africa's most populous country. It was the sixth coup since Nigeria...
...sheer silliness as well. It centers around Pee Wee's relentless search for his stolen bicycle. It must be understood that this is not just any bicycle, but the ultimate kid's bicycle (at least in Pee Wee's mind), complete with lion's head on the handlebars, spiral wheels, streamers trailing from the handgrips, and the world's loudest horn...