Word: briskly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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About 200 House residents and adminstrators braved the brisk fall air yesterday to take part in the egg toss, tricycle race, dunk tank, dough-wrestling, assassin game and millipede-a-thon...
...Ajemian (Harvard), Correspondent Joelle Attinger (Wellesley) and Harvard Senior Robert Cunha. They were also assisted by Reporter-Researchers John Gallagher (Fordham), Val Castronovo (Vassar), Nancy Gibbs (Yale) and Zona Sparks (University of Chicago). Senior Editor Christopher Porterfield, a Yale graduate who edited the cover stories, discounts any talk of brisk competition between Harvard and his alma mater. Says Porterfield: "The Macy's-Gimbels rivalry thing is a big bore. There is more kinship between Harvard and Yale than between Harvard and any other university. In these days when others are challenging our supremacy, Harvard and Yale ought to draw together...
...massed its forces on behalf of the rebel troops. In its snug maroon auditorium just a few blocks from the Capitol, it held an all-day seminar for congressional staffers. The guests of honor: two top contra officers and a Nicaraguan opposition journalist. A week later Heritage issued a brisk nine-page report titled Nicaragua's Terrorist Connection, copies of which were distributed by hand to all Congressmen and to targeted staff members. Heritage's pro-contra blitz was on. The reign of the pensive, passive, pipe-smoking Washington think tank is under assault. These venerable research institutions, which sprang...
...that epic reconstruction of a black family's odyssey from freedom in Africa to slavery and emancipation in Virginia, Dorothy Spruill Redford could trace her family only as far back as her grandparents. But Haley's genealogical pilgrimage impelled her to one of her own. For Redford, 43, a brisk, hard-driving welfare department supervisor in Portsmouth, Va., the quest would last a decade and grow into an obsession, an irresistible desire to light up the dark past...
...mood to walk a little further, head down Massachusetts Avenue toward Central Square. Remember the best way to get rid of a hangover is a brisk walk. First you'll come to Chi-Chi's, which is closed for repairs until July. The only drink worth getting here is a Marguarita, but don't forget to ask for your Nachos...