Word: shorting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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This article disappointed me. It was just another piece of angry, emotional propaganda, similar to so many produced by HIPAC and other groups in the last few years. Using phrases like "They had perfect position to attack the defenseless prayershawled worshippers below," and "the posters amounted to nothing short of blood libel against the Jewish state," it tried to press more fear buttons than a Republican political candidate...
...Columbus Day weekend, giving Congress and the President three more days to strike an agreement before most government employees were due to report to work. On Friday evening, while congressional leaders scrambled to rejigger the deficit-cutting plan to make it more acceptable, the House overwhelmingly passed a short-term continuing resolution that would have funded government operations for a week. The measure was approved by a voice vote in the Senate hours later...
With Harvard facing a third and goal at the Big Red 10-yard line, Cronin dumped Lazarre-White way back at the 27. And Scott Johnson's almost impossible 45-yard field goal into the wind fell far short at the buzzer...
Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu explained what ensued: "If a...raging mob of thousands of people is coming at you trying to tear you to bits, you try to use whatever method of crowd control you can short of live ammunition. And if that doesn't help, if you're outnumbered roughly 100 to one and you know that you have to save your life, you will use live fire. That happened here...
...Terriers helped Harvard's cause by playing a man short during most of the overtime. A B.U. defender did his best Chris Nilan imitation by drawing a red card at the beginning of the frame...