Word: blankets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dunn looks like your grandmother, with crisp white hair and a ruddy complexion, who stands just about five feet tall. She loves detective novels and just finished knitting a blanket for her first grandchild, who will be born next month...
Meanwhile, the larger historical framework surrounding the controversy, such as the United States' very recent imperialist past (and some might argue present) in Puerto Rico and the treatment of Puerto Ricans as second-class citizens in the United States has been shunted aside in favor of blanket accusations about the tolerance of violence and the cat-and-mouse game of political point-scoring. What was an opportunity for Americans, particularly politicians, to educate themselves about Puerto Rico's history and its complicated relationship with the United States, as well as about the status and treatment of Puerto Ricans...
...plausibly, with a critique of the N.A.A.C.P.'s lawsuit against gun manufacturers. Why, he asked, should gun companies, instead of the killers, be held accountable for the appalling rate of black-on-black homicide? But that pointed query was merely a launching point for Horowitz's real message: a blanket assault on the alleged moral failures of African Americans so strident and accusatory that it made the antiblack rantings of Dinesh D'Souza seem like models of fair-minded social analysis...
...during most of the record race." This was a way to let it seep out -- if it gets out at all. McGwire deliberately passed on a chance to repeat the announcement in front of the post-game news cameras, thereby missing a chance to get his message blanket coverage on the news and sports channels. If McGwire really feels he?s done his young fans a disservice, and wants to reverse the damage, surely this is a lousy way to do it. Then again, he never wanted to talk about it in the first place -- an Associated Press reporter spotted...
Just when you thought U.S.-China relations couldn?t get any worse, Taiwan?s President Lee Teng-hui is picking a fight with the mainland over what is perhaps the most fundamentally contentious issue between Beijing and Washington: the so-called "One China" policy. "One China" is the security blanket by which Taiwan, China and the U.S. have been getting along with each other since Nixon was out that way in 1972. In it, the communists in Beijing and the democratic nationalists in Taipei maintain the fiction that each is eventually going to rule the other, with...