Word: chorused
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when it's never happened before, and Mercker's fastball to Berry is fouled off, and you have but a second to react, calculate and react again...you lunge, desperately, with both hands, and when you catch it you're quickly grateful not to have been cascaded with a chorus of boos for letting the prize slip to the blue seats below...
...Vatican emerged as the lone dissenter over a compromise version of the U.N. population document on abortion, drawing a chorus of boos at the Cairo meeting from other countries' delegates who felt they'd already made big concessions to the Church. The Pakistani-drafted text, which expressed reservations over abortion, found favor with Iran and other Islamic allies of the Vatican's anti-abortion stance. It also drew no objections from Catholic countries. But the Holy See was unwilling to endorse a document with phrases such as "reproductive health" and "fertility regulation," which it considers veiled references to abortion...
...Luis Diaz, 29, "because there's no electricity there, and no lights." As they gratefully reunited with family members in Little Havana, Attorney General Reno was announcing the new U.S. detention policy. Unaware of their close call, they all had one goal in mind. "To work!" they yelled in chorus...
...conservative Republican found the Clintons innocent. "That sounds sensible," says a Republican Senator, "but if Starr slams Clinton, we think the facts will drown out the cries of foul." The Democrats apparently agree. Despite insisting the Clintons are clean -- and thus shouldn't sweat any inquiry -- a growing Democratic chorus is clamoring for Starr's resignation. So are several major media outlets, including the New York Times, which last week concluded that Starr has a "duty" to quit...
None of this bodes well for the President's goal of universal health care. The G.O.P. is still a mostly unified chorus of noes on any of the Democratic plans. In the House, for instance, not a single Republican is prepared to support the bill put forward by minority leader Richard Gephardt. But the President's real problem remains his fellow Democrats. That wasn't Bob Dole who was pounding the lectern during last week's debate, shouting, "We've got to stop this train right now!" It was David Boren, Democrat of Oklahoma...