Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Along with his brother, Lou "Wheels" Bevilacqua, the duo gave the frozen fans something to cheer for with their razzle-dazzle offensive skills and burn-rubber speed...
...sleep for weeks after viewing movies like "North and South" or "Roots" because of the brutal depictions of slavery. Like many children, I applied what I saw to my own reality. I lay awake for hours imagining that the sick men dressed in sheets on television would invade and burn my home in suburban St. Louis. But I appeased my fears by convincing myself that those things don't happen anymore: Missouri isn't Alabama or Mississippi. And even if it is, great progress has been made in those places. Surely the hate cannot hurt me here, not now: these...
...while many who burn the midnight oil try to add dance-club fever to pass the monotony of their work, the graveyard shift is not all about musical taste...
...charge that women have different skills that are not rewarded on the test, Penn said: "Is the solution to drop geometry or to say, 'We need to encourage women to take geometry?' You don't burn down a house to get rid of rats...
Some Clinton aides are impressed with the initiative. "If this is for real, and we think it is, it's a very important step," says a senior U.S. official. But those who have watched Mexico burn its promises before are skeptical. Complained DEA administrator Tom Constantine: "There is not one single civilian law-enforcement institution in Mexico with which the DEA has a really trusting relationship." U.S. agents doubt Mexico's new drug superagency will be the first...