Word: side
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...started with the people in the American embassy in Phnom Penh, amazed by the "unanimity with which they spoke" and with what they saw as "callous disregard" for human lives. Somebody in Washington was watching the CIA reports that showed North Vietnamese troops hiding in sanctuaries on the Cambodian side of the border. Somebody decided that the best way to flush the North Vietnamese out was to destroy the sanctuaries. But, as Shawcross demonstrates in Sideshow, they forgot that the bombs might hit a few Cambodians...
...into a 4-1 lead. But Cornell's Brock Tredway, who had demonstrated all night why he is considered one of the best two-way players in the ECAC, took advantage of a four-four situation and circled behind the Providence net, tucking the puck past Fiske's glove side to narrow the margin...
...more for the early morning banter among the regulars in Al's than the caffeine. Delis--especially the all-nighters--embody the New York experience. Seven in the morning or three at night, I'd always be guaranteed a sandwich, a run-in with the run down, and west-side talk...
Professor Richard Pipes and I clearly have fundamental disagreements on the current crisis and its relations to efforts at nuclear arms control and arms reduction. In his recent letter (Crimson, 4 March), he side-stepped these disagreements and instead makes the general claim that I get many things quite wrong. He then goes on to pull one idea out of the context of the article, which deals not with SALT in any narrow sense, which any reader will have recognized since Afghanistan, the Soviet Union, the Middle East, etc., are all discussed, and as a means of demonstrating my unreliability...
...entered the world of the German gay underground. Peering down a spiral staircase into a dark, smoky room, I surveyed a collection of the prettiest boys this side of the Neckar. Freaks in wet-look plastic boots, shoehorned into their black leather pants, dotted the tightly-packed crowd, which twisted and throbbed to a deafening American rock beat. At the foot of the stairs an enormous man is his early fifties frantically attempted to attract the attention of a golden-haired sixteen-year-old who wore makeup in excellent taste, like the wanderer in Fellini's Satyricon...