Word: began
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kelleher began working for Harvard in 1976, performing her duties from an office in her home...
Still, Bush was bent on having a good time at Yale. Walker remembers walking home with Bush one night when his friend suddenly shouted, "Let's rock and roll--you rock and I'll roll!" Blocks away from campus, the someday Texas governor began to log roll down the street...
...meeting began when Illingworth emphasized how seriously he takes student opinions, saying, "I hope you'll teach me how to do this...
...letter sent just as the summer began in 1966, Gore wrote from his Tennessee home, "The cattle party was tonight--the sale is tomorrow. It's 11 o'clock and I have to be up at 5. That's not so bad but I didn't get any sleep last night...
However, the spurious charge of racism obscures a greater threat. Ashcroft began his campaign against White by arguing that he had voted to overturn a death penalty 14 times. Later, the tactics became more sophisticated, and White's votes were compared to others on the court (some of whom, Ashcroft appointees, had voted against more death penalties than he), but the count-the-numbers approach betrays a cynical assumption that any vote to reverse the death penalty is suspect, that the courts should rubber-stamp death sentences instead of conducting meaningful review...