Word: armes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...boxing world received a shot in the arm with the return of Mike Tyson to the ring. Iron Mike didn't disappoint in his debut, recording a first-round knockout against a marginally-worthy opponent, Peter McNeely...
...there also have also been a few disturbing developments. Some of the services of ESPNet, the sports network's internet arm, now require a monthly fee for user access. Information that was free three months ago is now available only on a pay basis...
...long arm of litigiousness has reached out and touched Barbara Bush. Former CIA operative and current agency scold Philip Agee is claiming Babs' 1994 autobiography, A Memoir, falsely blames him for the murder of Richard Welch, the CIA's chief operative in Athens. He's suing for $4 million. Ex-First Dog Millie, who wrote a book with Bush, is not named in the suit...
...come out of the U.N. women's conference in Beijing is that China is run by a band of ill- mannered male chauvinist control freaks. The major U.S. news outlets have dwelt, with morbid fascination, on the abuses of women in China, from forced sterilization to the strong-arm tactics of the Chinese police. This is valuable information, especially for the one-quarter of the world's women who are Chinese. But did 40,000 women have to travel to Beijing just to confirm what one man, Harry Wu, more or less established a couple of weeks...
...tall. In my mind's eye, I am leaning out the window of our apartment, and I spot him coming down the street from the subway station. He wears a coat and tie, and a small fedora is perched on his head. He has a newspaper tucked under his arm. His overcoat is unbuttoned, and it flaps at his sides as he approaches with a brisk, toes-out stride. He is whistling and stops to greet the druggist, the baker, our building super, almost everybody he passes. To some kids on the block he is a faintly comical figure...