Word: swipes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sore, correctly reading in the question the faint taunt that military men may not be quite deep enough for the Oval Office. The Senator won the night by reminding his audience that he had been "representing the future of this country" in those years. He also took a swipe at New York's Governor Mario Cuomo, who had introduced the issue from another angle by saying that the candidates must demonstrate The than "celluloid images," a reference to the release of the movie The Right charge," featuring Glenn's space triumph. "As far as the celluloid charge," Glenn...
...white man came, the Indians venerated them as gods. Weighing as much 1,000 Ibs. and rearing up to 8 ft. on their hind legs, the great humpbacked beasts-among the largest carnivores in North America-can kill an elk or crumple the fender of a car with a swipe of a powerful paw. Still, for all its might, the grizzly, or more properly Ursus arctos horribilis (terrible northern bear), has become pathetically vulnerable...
...Campaigning in the economically depressed West Midlands, Deputy Labor Party Leader Denis Healey discovered a mechanical crab at a street market and held it up before TV cameras. "It moves sideways and evades your every instruction," he joked. "I'm going to call it Sir Geoffrey Howe." That swipe at Thatcher's Chancellor of the Exchequer made the evening news programs. Said Healey: "Margaret Thatcher has turned the Tory Party into her personal dictatorship...
...play goal that put Harvard ahead for good. With Crimson blueliner Ken Code in the penalty box late in the first stanza, Fusco struck for the first of his two tallies. Skating in on UVM netminder Mike Mundorf, he was taken down by a defenseman but still managed to swipe at the puck while sliding...
President Reagan's swipe at the nuclear-freeze movement is bogus. This group is as much the product of Soviet agents as the Polish Solidarity union is the result of American provocateurs...