Word: allenate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Allen Iverson shook off early foul trouble and scored 19 of his 25 points in the second half as the Hoyas advanced despite making just 13 of 31 free throws...
...hair. Burns was not a particularly influential or groundbreaking comic, like Groucho Marx or George's old friend Jack Benny. But no one commanded the stage with more easygoing--and, as the years went on, inspiring--authority. He was 62 when his wife and longtime partner Gracie Allen retired, but his career was barely past its midpoint. He went on to even greater success in nightclubs, television and movies. His longevity became part of his appeal and the subject of his comedy. "It's nice to be here," he would typically announce. "At my age, it's nice...
...play opens, Bradley Yamashita (Young Lee '99) and Vincent Chang (Allen Soong '96) meet at a Hollywood party. Bradley, a young actor who wants to change the way Asians are portrayed in the media, tells the older Vincent that he admires his work and speaks of how much it means to the "community." Bradley also explains that he has sought out Vincent because he feels more comfortable talking to the only other Asian-American in the room...
...Vincent Schiraldi, director of San Francisco's Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, referring to the fact that more than four times as many pot smokers as murderers have been imprisoned under California's "three strikes" law. The measure was pushed into law after ex-convict Richard Allen Davis was charged with kidnapping and murdering 12-year-old Polly Klaas...
...politicians have engaged in the classic 'bait and switch' scheme. They brought us into the store with an icon of Richard Allen Davis, but now that we're in the store, it is full of pizza thieves and pot smokers...