Word: wisps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...damage civil liberties guaranteed in the Constitution. destroy the delicate balance of world peace and turn back the clock for social and economic justice. We are not willing to risk the gains of the last 50 years--and the values of peace, equality and justice--for a fleeting, fanciful wisp of a party and candidate that might never again be heard from after November...
...enough to justify all that roaming around that so many did: "I do not think I shall ever forget the sight of Etna at sunset; the mountain almost invisible in a blur of pastel grey, glowing on the top and then repeating its shape, as though reflected, in a wisp of grey smoke with the whole horizon behind radiant with pink light, fading gently into a grey pastel sky. Nothing I have seen in Art or Nature was quite so revolting...
...wisp in Montreal, only 5 ft. even and 86 lbs., one of those slim, prepubescent marvels who have revolutionized the sport. As she has matured, she has added three inches and 13 pounds; some coaches wondered if she had become too top-heavy to perform her limber routines. Indeed, Comaneci looked like a stranger in her new body. She finished a disappointing fourth in the all-around competition during the World Championships at Strasbourg in 1978, then missed much of that event last year due to a badly infected hand...
...over." By then he had already arrived in New Jersey for what was to be a three-day campaign swing, but he canceled that, canceled all plans for California, and flew home to Houston to decide on his future course. Ex-President Gerald Ford offered a faint wisp of help, telling a press conference that Bush had done well in the industrial states where "Governor Reagan could have some difficulty." But though Bush might prolong his campaign, the indications were that his candidacy was about over...
Next year, it was. She made the Olympic team, and though 15 and frightened of the pressure and the presence of machine-gun-toting guards, she placed a respectable eighth at Innsbruck. She won the World Championship in 1977, a tiny (5 ft. 1 in., 97 lbs.) wisp of a girl who could whip through spectacular leaps and spins in the blink of an eye. Yet her skating never flowed with the liquid style of Peggy Fleming's; it flared in a series of brief, athletic explosions. Before one could count the spins, she was gone, halfway across...