Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cartoonist who craves Calvin and Hobbes but knows that all strips must one day fall flat, I worry that Watterson will start creating a series of new personas for Calvin without improving either the presentation of those characters or the psychological depth of Calvin. Yukon Ho! focuses on the presentation more than showing a more human side to Calvin, but the approach is still fresh...
...stellar performance, one of our best to start a spring season," Harvard volunteer Coach Martyn Kingston said. "We were expected to win, but certainly not by that score...
Before handing out kudos for the offensive performance, it would be appropriate to start with the defense...
...start in 1922. That year, in a small office on 17th Street in Manhattan, two young men, Briton Hadden and Henry Luce, wrote a prospectus for a radically new magazine that became TIME. Hadden lived only long enough to see TIME become a success; under Luce, Time Inc. grew into the largest magazine publisher in the U.S. When Luce died in 1967, Time Inc. had four magazines. Today it publishes 13 and is part owner of another eleven. Along the way it also became one of America's most significant book, video and cable-TV companies...
...that respect, CFE is different from its variously initialed cousins SALT, START and INF, which dealt with the arsenals of Armageddon: missiles and bombs that are too unconventional to use. The control of nuclear arms is part of the larger, thoroughly laudable, but often abstract exercise of fine-tuning the balance of terror so as to make it a bit more balanced and a bit less terrible. CFE, by contrast, deals with real weapons, things that actually hurt people: a tank that can crush bodies on a town square; high explosives not measured in kilotons but still able to destroy...