Word: tempo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though Army (4-5) fought back and eventually regained the lead, the second-half tempo was established and it didn't favor the slower Cadets. Sharpshooting freshman forward Greg Wildes took over where Trout had left off, piling in points with 20-ft. baseline jumpers he sank like layups. When he began rebuilding the Harvard buffer. Wothke knew he had to make a move...
...free-for-all pop music business of the late '50s, a strained symbiosis obtained between singers and songwriters. Both were young and ambitious; both pulled the music directly from their own up-tempo urban experience. But the writer-producers were white, most of them, and in control; the performers were working-class girls, black or white, and in thrall. With six Top Ten singles (including Will You Love Me Tomorrow and Soldier Boy), the Shirelles expected that the "trust fund" of their earnings would be substantial but, as they told Betrock, when they turned 21 they learned that...
...here. The present incumbent seems relatively innocent in the field. Truman and J.F.K. were well-steeped in history. From a sense of history (preferably not just American) flows an informed patriotism, a feel for the powers of an office unique in the world, the restraints upon it, and the tempo of a presidential term, including the special
...intelligence source in Honduras, the U.S. started to lose its grip on the entire effort and its goals. The F.D.N., for one thing, is interested not just in intimidating the Sandinistas but in starting a real war against Nicaragua. "We will start to pick up the tempo before December," predicted an F.D.N. official. "We will be in Managua by spring...
...Crimson then used a steady passing game to slow the tempo, scoring its first goal at 13-40 of the opening period...