Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...word it probably refers to the 747, now practically at a right angle to the Su-15. Although target had a tragic meaning in the skies over Sakhalin, it is airman slang for radar blip...
...Crimson basketball team lost a player in tragic fashion when John Harnice '84 drowned on July 30. A reserve forward with the varsity who played relatively little last season. Harnice died after an 80-ft. dive from a bridge near his Frankfort, Ky. home...
Barring any tragic incidents, Reagan's muscular foreign policy is likely to remain both flexed and relatively flexible. If Reagan has not quite donned the complete uniform of the world's policeman (the costume Presidents have worn for most of the 20th century) he has been swinging the nightstick as though he means it. -By Kurt Andersen. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett and Gregory H. Wierzynski/ Washington
...research fellow at Harvard's Ukrainian Institute yesterday described the Ukrainian famine as one of the most tragic and least understood evends of this century, "representing the most successful example of the denial of genocide by in perpetration." The basic reason behind Station's actions was trying to destroy the Ukrainian nation as a social organism and as a political factor within the Soviet Union." added James Mace, author of a forth coming book on the famine...
...most difficult role of Vinnie, alternating between the emotionally childish "daddy's little girl" and the cunning, evil woman who twists people to murder or suicide. But her snarling performance leaves the audience unable to pity her character. This bleak production denies Vinnie the final redemption earned by a tragic heroine. The other demanding role, Orin, occasionally eludes Keshishian, as he has trouble at first keeping the war-weary boy diffident and still remaining in character. Happily, the actor warms into his part. The rest of the cast perform competently, though more rehearsal time might have afforded them a greater...