Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...JACKAL FLASHED A WICKED smile as he ushered 38 invited guests into the red brick schoolhouse. Before the Nicaraguan government delegates could take in their surroundings in the muddy mountain town of El Zungano, the Jackal's band of former contra guerrillas closed around them in a tight cordon. Training automatic weapons on the hostages, the rightist rebels announced the price for freedom: dismissal of Sandinista army chief Humberto Ortega and top presidential aide Antonio Lacayo, viewed as too easy on the country's ousted Marxist rulers...
...porcelain spark plug will. "People are shocked, because they don't see a weapon. These guys don't have to use a bat. Some even carry the porcelain piece around in their mouths," says Miami's Sergeant Camil. "There you are, daydreaming about dinner. You're not expecting a brick or a spark plug through the window," says Miami Police Department spokesman Angelo Bitsis. "If you were walking on the street and somebody was following you and staring at your bag, you know to prepare yourself. But in smash-and-grabs, the window is smashed, there's a hand...
This, after all, is my final shot at becoming a true-blue. Harvard literati. (I just won't get another chance to name-drop Joseph Andrews and Walker Evans without someone throwing a brick at my head, will I? And most frighteningly of all, somewhere in the back of my mind, the thesis clock has started to tick--freedom will soon come crashing to an end, and long nights of genuine scholarship await. Sometime between now and unemployment, I've got to squeeze in some education...
...million (annual sales) business by engineering an edible Disneyland. Shoppers don't just shop at Stew's, they arrive (sometimes by tour bus) and worship the experience of wheeling oversize carts down a 20-ft.-wide aisle that meanders through the 10- acre complex like a yellow-brick road. As a result, Leonard has been hailed as a monument to family enterprise and brilliant marketing by everyone from chicken toughie Frank Perdue to Ronald Reagan to Tom Peters, author of A Passion for Excellence. Companies such as Wal-Mart and Wendy's have sent executives on pilgrimages to study Stew...
...those like Mike Johnson who curse the river, the skies, the dams and levees upstream (for holding altogether too well and increasing pressure downriver), and the government. Mike, an out-of-work machine operator, and his wife Roberta and three children were ordered out of their two-story brick house in the St. Louis suburb of Lemay on July 9 at 3:30 a.m. Every day since, Mike has returned to the house in a neighbor's boat to inspect it; late last week 6 ft. of water sloshed around the living room. The family, plus two Chow show dogs...