Word: ago
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lawns lost their romantic associations with English manor living years ago. The concept of the lawn is now a thoroughly American one and one thoroughly devoid of romance. A mental image of suburbia literally couldn't exist without the lawn (and the fat balding man standing around in his boxers, watering it with a flaccid garden hose, but more on that later) --suburbs were in fact designed around lawns. Jenkins describes the flight to suburbia and the ascendancy of the single-family home with front yard as "the most characteristic single feature of European settlement in North America...
...crowd nods and murmurs their soulful agreement. Minutes ago I might have thought to myself, "yeah, hallelujah" in sarcastic response. Now I nearly blurt it out for real. KRS-1 preaches...
Maher, a guitar player and singer, and DePoe, a trumpet player, took their act underground several months ago, playing jazz arrangements of Christmas carols for the holiday season...
...Talking about 10 years ago--it's just like yesterday," said Xiao Quiang, executive director for Human Rights in China and a speaker at yesterday's event...
Xiao said that the leaders of China must acknowledge that the events in Tiananmen Square 10 years ago were crimes against the Chinese people...