Word: broom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...among the gypsy people. Still, I don't understand. Am I missing something? Why am I not impressed by a boy who skips from one side to the other of a broomstick laid on the stage (stepping on it at one point, I might add), in the aptly named "Broom Dance." There was an a cappella duet of a chilling minor tone that caught my imagination, and then it was back to the men with sashes who hop with bells on their feet...
General Amnon Lipkin-Shahak is no Colin Powell. The former chief of the Israeli army who formally declared his candidacy for Prime Minister Wednesday may look like a new broom to those tired of the traditional Likud-Labor divide, but that could be wishful thinking. ?Politically Shahak would be on the left flank of the Labor Party,? says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. ?Israel?s generals tend to be more left-wing than its politicians. That could be because they know the horror of war, but it could also reflect the dominance of the kibbutz movement in the upper...
...Rindge Avenue resident reports that she had a fight with a family member that involved the two striking one another with a broom...
Schnatter perfected that knack while tending bar in Jeffersonville after graduating in three years from Ball State University. He took a sledgehammer to a broom closet and knocked out space for a small pizza kitchen, which soon grew into a business that became Papa John's in 1985 and went public in 1993. But his demanding manner was not to everyone's taste. No fewer than five top executives, including the company's president, quit in 1995 and 1996, in part because of Schnatter's brusque management style. Says Cheryl Bachelder, executive vice president for marketing at Domino...
...convince us that the best way for women to bond outside of PTA phone trees and sewing bees is by holding a good old-fashioned coven. In what remains the most embarrassingly overplayed line in the whole movie, one of the town housewives turned coven-member brandishes her broom and says, "Come on ladies, it's time to clean house...