Word: calms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hayles remembers the expression on Kinkel's face. "It was calm but mad," she says. "It was, like, 'I don't care.'" Mikael Nickolauson, a taciturn 17-year-old, was sitting at a table doing his homework when he was shot and killed. Only the day before, he and his fiance had enlisted in the Oregon National Guard. Kinkel continued moving through the crowd, taking aim. As students were hit in their chest, arms, legs and head, their classmates scrambled under the tables or ran screaming for the exits. At one point, Kinkel raised his rifle to Ryan Crowley...
Returning from a book tour in which he apologized for everything but the end of Seinfeld, Newt was looking calm, thin and happy. Then James Dobson, the country's most powerful Christian activist, with 28 million radio listeners, came calling, threatening to bolt the party unless Gingrich stones the adulterer in the Oval Office and delivers candidates to Dobson's liking, not ones who use him and don't take his calls in the morning...
...addition of several new state-of-the-art treadmills and stairmasters last fall with its antedivulian and rusty weights and general "ratty" aura, it remains a dilapidated and wholly inadequate facility for students not affiliated with a varsity sports team. Opening two hours early will do little to calm the long waits students experience for court space and free weights--nor will it address the shortage of modern equipment. And the QRAC still does not open until noon...
...everything changed. Suddenly, I was residing in the most prestigious locale around. The environment here is carefully controlled to provide an ideal place to grow. Food is plentiful and readily available, housing nothing but the best compared to other aquariums. There is no tide and the water is calm. Yet, every once in a while, some spoiled character complains about...
...secure and comfortable. The glass walls permit a view of the world out there, but still guard me from any external threat. I can look in all directions and speculate on anything. Inside the aquarium, I can make discoveries that lead to major storms outside while leaving intact the calm waters within...