Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...biggest strike against the early deadline was dealing with January papers and exams and then go immediately into intensive writing," said Sage, whose thesis was a comparative study of authors Nathaniel Hawthorne and Bernard Malamud. "While I was writing, it was horrible and emotionally exhausting...
...paper made public the same day the President spoke reported that the U.N.'s inspectors "believe Iraq maintains a small force of Scud-type missiles, a small stockpile of chemical and biological munitions" and the ability to produce more of them quickly. A U.S. and British bombing strike, Clinton told his Pentagon audience, "can and will leave him significantly worse off than he is now" and reduce Saddam's ability to attack his neighbors. "If he seeks to rebuild his weapons of mass destruction, we will be prepared to strike him again." Clinton even trotted out some cold war rhetoric...
...great game shows of bygone days remain fixed in our subconscious. The obnoxious blare of a strike on "Family Feud," the whammies dancing across the screen in "Press Your Luck," the frenetic gesticulations of contests on the "$25,000 Pyramid:" all are permanently imprinted in the minds of many in our generation. Possibly Harvard's "Game Show Guru," Mandel N. Ilagan '99 admits that his first memories of television came in the form of game shows...
...killer had come and gone, raising new mysteries even as old mysteries from 1918 were being solved. What allowed this avian virus to cross the species barrier and set up killing infections in man? Why did it strike the young and hardy with the most ferocity--just as the 1918 virus had? And, most important, has the virus really ceased to be a threat, or is it circulating more quietly, primed for a "reassortment event" that will set off the next global disaster...
...Strike a flirtily nude pose for a women's magazine. Have a happily public affair with a TV chanteuse 19 years your senior. Tease your screen machismo in lightning banter with Johnny Carson. Make a lot of middling pictures in fast cars. Be an early victim of AIDS rumors. Just about...