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Word: swifts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...icemen will has to play tighter hockey than they have been to knock off the best Yale team in recent memory Tim Taylor's swift, physical squad is led by machine-gunners Mark Crerar (19 goals, 20 assists for 39 points), Dan Poliziani (19-15-34) and Eli career assist record-holder Bob Brooke (8-23-31). A spark has come from sophomore goalie Paul Tortella, who has filled the gap created by the graduated Mark Rodrigues with impressive stats--a 3.70 GAA, 90 percent ECAC save average and a 9-5 overall record--and clutch play. In Thursday...

Author: By Bruce Schornfeld, | Title: Crimson Icemen to Face Elis | 2/6/1982 | See Source »

Bulletins of this kind have become disturbingly common in recent months, despite the Administration's affection for law-and-order rhetoric. Ronald Reagan speaks from his Middle American viscera when he says that lawlessness demands a "spiritual solution" and that retribution "should be swift and sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The White House and Impropriety | 1/4/1982 | See Source »

...income members will be permitted to earn each year. "This is the pickpocket's way," cried dismayed Republican Millicent Fenwick of New Jersey after the unrecorded vote. The Representatives also voted to allow themselves tax deductions for the cost of maintaining a second residence in Washington. The sneaky, swift maneuvers seemed particularly ill suited in this season of fiscal austerity. Other last-minute actions: the narrow approval, by a 205-to-203 vote, of a scaled-back $11 billion version of the bill providing for farm subsidies and price supports, and restoration of the $122-a-month minimum Social...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing Both Santa and Scrooge | 12/28/1981 | See Source »

...POLISH GOVERNMENT'S harsh crackdown on the Solidarity workers' movement, and its revocation of the freedoms won so inspiringly by the Polish people over the past 15 months, merit swift and strong condemnation. A protest against this unjustifiable action, featuring two speakers who are veterans of the Polish dissident movement, has been scheduled for the steps of Memorial Church at 1 p.m. today. To express their outrage, and to stay as informed as possible, all members of the University community should attend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Solidarity | 12/16/1981 | See Source »

Five years of American involvement in Vietnam--of soldiers dying, lots of them--elapsed before sustantial numbers of people began making a substantial amount of noise; by contrast, the news of our much less direct role in El Salvador's stunningly brutal repression was swift, loud, and over-whelmingly angry. The Reagan administration had hoped to commence a new sort of cold war foreign policy in the Central American nation. The State Department declared in February that El Salvador was a "strikingly familiar case of Soviet, Cuban and other Communist military involvement in a politically troubled Third World country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Forgotten El Salvador | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

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