Word: braves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...race? Now comes a chance to revitalize yourself and a rural community at the same time. Residents of Minnesota's Koochiching County, whose biggest town is International Falls (pop. 10,000), are trying to boost their sagging population by giving away up to 40 acres to each brave soul who takes up residence there. To qualify, applicants must be financially self-sufficient and bring a business or a useful skill with them. The county has received 27 applications, four of which have been accepted...
Besides being brave, Nick is something of an ironist. This quality, if nothing else, is a sign of intelligence. Before taking up fire fighting, Nick was a cop falsely tainted by corruption. Now the very people who secretly profited by victimizing him -- the crooked, volcanic mayor (Rod Steiger) and the bland, bureaucratic police commissioner (Harvey Keitel) -- need him to lead the hunt for a maniacal killer...
...legality and the political soundness of his position. While Britain abstained from both U.N. votes, British officials made it clear that they too favored an Arafat appearance before the U.N. Israel alone stood with Washington, casting the only other no vote and hailing Shultz's refusal as a "brave decision...
...often memorable. Here is a 1946 description of his surroundings during a vacation in New Hampshire: "The pastures are stony, the mountains are leonine, the natives are taciturn and venal, the sunsets are red, and in the early evenings you can hear, from the shores of the lake, the brave and innocent voices of little children, singing some gibberish song about what a wonderful time they're having at Camp Wonk-a-tonk...
...methods of testing, researchers at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station in New Haven have found that conventional eggs contain between 172 and 232 mg of cholesterol, instead of the 274 previously measured. That would place them somewhat closer to the count of Rosemary Farm eggs. So even if the brave new eggs have yet to reach the neighborhood market, Americans may feel just a litle less devilish the next time they reach for a deviled...