Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...draft because they liked his energy and intelligence, and the fact that he wasn't George Bush. So far, at least, voters also seem to be discounting the insistence of his foes that Clinton's character renders him unfit to retain the presidency. If some of his own men begin to make that case, however, it's a whole new ball game...
...fireworks did not begin at the scheduled time. To combat boredom, one member of my group suggested that we sing the national anthem. Amused, we all agreed...
...then a great rush of onlookers forced us to stand. Packed onto the highway, we waited impatiently for the show to begin...
...first week in Manhattan, three serial killers were arrested. It's the kind of news you don't know how to take--is it reassuring that these people were apprehended or terrifying that they were out there to begin with? The New York Times took the former attitude, dutifully reporting Mayor Rudy Giuliani's boats about the crack police work of the NYPD. Once crucial detail especially worked to Giuliani's advantage: John J. Royster, the man who confessed to a brutal beating in Central Park and a murder on Park Avenue, was caught because he was fingerprinted during...
...Fourth itself, the festivities begin at 9 a.m. with the raising of the flag in City Hall Plaza, accompanied by the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts...