Word: barnful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...without warning. When he went over, he took the bridle off Buck's face. "I mean, the bridle, the bit, the reins, everything. I went over his ears like a football through the goalposts and ended up on the other side of the jump. Buck went back to the barn with no bridle. And I landed straight on my head because my hands were entangled in the bridle and I couldn't get an arm free to stop my fall. Had I done that, I'd be looking at a sprained wrist. I was heard...
...DIEGO: After a nomination acceptance speech which at times had both Bob Dole and audience members in tears, the GOP presidential candidate is ready for what running mate Jack Kemp predicts will be a "barn burner of a campaign." Dole entered the final phase of his run in San Diego Friday with the declaration that his campaign considered every state a battleground. "We will take our message across America," he told 300 GOP delegates the morning after he accepted the nomination. First up: appearances in four states that Dole views as critical to his re-election chances. He will make...
...awaiting what I honestly thought would be a great experience, I reported to 111 Center Street, the New York Supreme Court, at 9 a.m. sharp one muggy Monday. After passing through security, I was told to join the other "prospective jurors" in the "Juror Assembly Room"--it was a barn, and we were crammed in like so many cattle. The lady next to me was reading "Lust in the Desert" and the gentleman on my other side, well, he had the right idea--he was out cold...
...civic Cassandras are also off-base about the origins of America's social capital. Local barn raisings have never been strictly local. While many conservative thinkers have suggested that America's traditional associations sprang up like indigenous flowers from the soil of American goodness, the recent Oval Office handshakes serve as a reminder that Washington has always been a conspirator in grass-roots organizing. As sociologist Theda Skocpol has written, many of the U.S.'s most cherished volunteer associations, such as the Red Cross, the Salvation Army and Catholic Charities, worked side by side with government. Conservatives have lamented...
Last Monday night, however, the Lamberts' phone rang: Mount Pleasant was ablaze. Lambert's husband Steve, who is not only the mayor but also chief of the Kossuth volunteer fire department, rushed to the local fire barn and discovered to his astonishment that the engines were already gone, to another black church, Central Grove Missionary Baptist, which was burning a few miles away. Finally, the county fire department arrived, but by then, Mount Pleasant was lost. As the roof caved in and the steeple crashed to the ground, Linda Lambert glanced over at Sheriff's Deputy Billy Dilworth...