Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There was a big controversy, since students felt that they were paying enough and wanted the college to pay more money," said President of Dartmouth's Student Assembly Dean V. Krishna...
...freshmen made big contributions at longer distances. In their first collegiate performances, Christopher Antunes and John Traugott shined for Harvard in the middle-distance events. Antunes finished first in the 800-meter run with a time of 1:58.3, and Traugott won the 1000-meter...
...outside the Governor's mansion in Austin, Texas, had slipped into the unseasonable mid-40s, sunlight filled the second-floor solarium, where Bush and five of his top campaign advisers were seated around a table. The mood was relaxed, maybe even thankful. After all, Bush had just passed two big tests. He had performed adequately in delivering his first major foreign-policy speech, and two days later he had emerged virtually unscathed from a one-hour grilling on NBC's Meet the Press. After being knocked for weeks as a lightweight who didn't understand foreign policy and could...
...called him Yeshu from his full name, Yeshua--in the same narrow town: one narrow lane, two rows of rock houses, sealed with mud and roofed with branches daubed with mud, and each house full of the mouths he could hear saying "Bastard, Miriam's bastard boy, God's big baby!" His mother's story had leaked out somehow, likely through Yosef, who claimed that he had dreamed it but nonetheless married her, took in Yeshu and made other sons and daughters on her body. All of them grudged the favors their mother gave Yeshu as her eldest child...
...debates he sought so hungrily, and then his wild-eyed one-man assault on the money changers and lamb-and-dove merchants. Physically speaking, he'd done enough damage to last five minutes; but in terms of challenging the Temple mob, he'd laid the last straw on a big camel's back...