Word: barrelful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That evening, while his parents watched television, Doug sneaked into the garage and got his Dad's hacksaw. Carefully selecting a spot along the barrel, he began to cut. He was amazed at how easily the blade sliced through the metal. Smoothing the end with a metal file, he then cut the stock, reducing the gun by almost 2 ft. in length and transforming it into the weapon of choice among many teenage toughs: a pistol-grip, sawed-off shotgun, which he pronounces almost as one word. "Easy to hide and no need to aim. Just bam! and you clear...
...between Haiti and Cuba that sailors call the Windward Passage. They had left their homes in Petit-Trou-de-Nippes, a town of 1,000 perched on the shore of Haiti's impoverished southern claw, provisioned with only two bags of rice and a single 50-gal. barrel of water. Even at sea they continued to take on new passengers -- some arriving in dugout canoes, others by swimming. All were convinced that Dieu Veut was their only chance...
Ozawa got the reform fervor during the Gulf War, when the U.S. demanded at least token participation in the coalition by Japan. Tokyo was paralyzed by indecision, convincing Ozawa that his colleagues were too deep into the pork barrel to take on the challenges facing modern Japan. He believes government must play a more active role in international peacekeeping efforts, and that Tokyo must sweep away the economic regulations and other barriers that play havoc with trade relations and keep consumer prices and taxes artificially high at home. "In our current political setup," says Ozawa, "you don't have...
...best we can," Dunphy said, urging users of the Square to throw their garbage in a barrel and not on the ground. "We understand how important...
...short of talent, but the political correctness of its official cultural life has sent to Venice the whiny postfeminist images of Jenny Watson. Her paintings (of a victimized self, plus horses, with braids of hair pinned to the canvas) are comically ill done. This is the bottom of the barrel; it also links up with the other main section of the Biennale, known as "Aperto 93" and installed in the old rope factory at the Arsenal...