Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such a direct statement at the start of the talks set Ortega off balance, Hakim says, and led him to make the concessions necessary to sign on. Now only Honduras remained. Though hostile to the plan, the country risked being the "odd man out," Hakim says, and Arias emphasized that danger. As a result, Honduras, too, signed on to the Arias plan...
...told New York magazine in March, "When you start off with the idea that you're going to write, you think of yourself as some kind of rebel. Then you get to New York and you see there is as much conformism within the literary world as there is in the military world or business world. The rebel in a free country is the rebel within the status group.[Clothes] are a way of treating the literary-status world as cavalierly as I or any other writer would treat the outside world...
People who know me now probably won't believethis. But, dear reader, you're just going to haveto trust me on this one. In high school my heartbled and my knee jerked with the best of them. InCrimson editorial debates, on the otherhand, I was from the start, against my desires orintentions, cast on the right. I've developed areputation in Crimson circles, at least, asan incipient neo-conservative. This I deny, and ifany of you wish to talk about it, you know whereto reach...
Even when competition commenced late Sunday evening, the race was shortened to 1000 meters. "We had a floating start," said sophomore Martha Welch. "People kept trying to get the boats straight. We actually raced about 900 meters...
...Radcliffe lightweights raced on this short--and still very choppy--course. The Black and White finished second behind Princeton. "All you do is start and sprint," Welch said...