Word: arms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beginning and never let go. On numerous occasions this season, it has established a big early lead, only to watch it disappear in the first and middle portions of the second half. Against the Big Red, though, Harvard got out in front early and was able to stay an arm's distance ahead for the remainder of the game...
...says Charles Colson, former White House counsel to Richard Nixon, who has been devoted to prison reform since he did time for his involvement in Watergate. "My worry is that the failure of current policies will increase public frustration to the point that people will go for the strong-arm answer...
...black heads that surged to meet the bus. "That's me," I said, taking his sign and double checking the characters to make sure. Almost immediately, I was swarmed by young people. Two female cousins, hair swept back in identical, long pony tails, each grabbed me by the arm and tugged in opposite directions. "Oooh Jiu-Ru, welcome home. We're so happy to see you. we've been waiting for you for more than an hour...
...March 1990, when Tonya was 19, they were married; 15 months later she filed for divorce. At the same time, Harding sought a restraining order to keep Gillooly away. "He wrenched my arm and wrist, and he pulled my hair and shoved me," she wrote in her petition for the order. "I recently found out he bought a shotgun, and I am scared for my safety." A police report filed the next month quotes Harding as saying that Gillooly had cornered her in a boatyard and threatened, "I think we should break your legs and end your career...
...tiny Arkansas town of Flippin, which loaned money to 101 to buy the land and later advanced a $182,611 mortgage loan to Whitewater so it could repurchase the same land. Patterson, in an interview with TIME, insists that the sale to the McDougals and Clintons was an arm's length transaction. The reason they paid more per acre than other buyers of acreage from the large parcel was that they bought better land with a large amount of river frontage. And the reason his bank extended such loans, Patterson said, was to boost local economic development...