Word: brier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hernandez, 13-7; 142--C. Simmons (BU) def T. Kiler, 5-4; 150--K. Kurtz (H) def T. Cavin, 11-6; 158--J. Killar (H) def #7 B. Alimoradran, WBF (4:05); 167--E. Mosley (H) def J. Cavin, WBF (2:37), 177--Fran Volpe def G. Brier, WBF (3:52); 190--J. Abdullah (BU) def Brad Soltis, 17-8; HWT--D. Reed (BU) def R. Durbin...
...first millennium, time moved at the speed of an oxcart or, more often, of a sturdy pair of legs, and the West was built largely on wood. Europe was a collection of untamed forests, countless mile upon mile of trees and brush and brier, dark and inhospitable. Medieval chroniclers used the word desert to describe their arboreal world, a place on the cusp of civilization where werewolves and bogeymen still lunged out of the shadows and bandits and marauders maintained their lairs...
...Nixon episode came two weeks after the Bush campaign caravan stumbled into a California brier patch with Ronald Reagan, who reportedly had said Bush was in trouble because "he doesn't seem to stand for anything." Reagan denied the story, but a meeting between the two was set up at Reagan's Bel Air home, traditionally off limits for photographers and reporters. In the heated campaign environment, it seemed like a Reagan chill. Last week Reagan was in Los Angeles' posh Regency Club clearing the air: "George Bush was with me in my crusade. I support his candidacy...