Word: asphalt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Next year, many of Khalilah's classmates will have to start thinking about that stuff. Many will attend South Boston High School, where more than 200 students clashed in a race riot last Thursday, hitting each other, and Mayor Raymond Flynn, with rocks and chunks of asphalt until police in riot gear forced an end to the fighting...
According to Nomakwezi Hani, two white men approached her father as he got out of the car to open the garage door. Five shots rang out -- two to the head -- and Hani slumped to the asphalt, still clutching the morning paper he had just bought. Later, as a pool of blood formed in the driveway, someone came and draped the A.N.C.'s black, green and gold tricolor over the corpse...
...thunder you hear on these March nights is the better part of 10 million basketballs being dribbled, slapped, dunked, palmed and bounced in every oversteamed gym and field house and on every chilled and ragged patch of asphalt and on every mud-caked farmyard where a kid can pivot and hook and dream...
Country music, in fact -- not the typical jazzman's hard knocks in the asphalt jungle -- carried Haden into jazz. Born in Iowa, he grew up in Missouri, where his family had a daily radio show, Uncle Carl Haden and the Haden Family. Cowboy Charlie, as he came to be billed, made his debut at two; at four he was singing all the harmony parts and cutting loose with a mean yodel. Some nights, he remembers, "Mother Maybelle Carter used to rock me to sleep...
...onetime political rivals into the closest of friends. Theirs is a comradeship of the road, an intimacy forged by joint bus trips, early-morning jogging excursions and suddenly shared political self- interest. Last week, for the fourth time since the Democratic Convention, the 10-bus Democratic caravan hit the asphalt on a two-day tour through Texas. Politically, the message was that the Democrats believe the nation's third most populous state remains a competitive battleground and that they intend to force George Bush to defend his home turf. But the subtext was lifted from a buddy movie: Gore aide...