Word: closed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...authors extend this idea beyond a husband and wife splitting duties to a new sense of letting children enjoy multiple parents: grandparents, friends, uncles and aunts, lovers, day care employees, and whoever else happens to be around. For the collective, raising children is a close encounter, with the comforting message that "We are not alone...
...embattled mountaintop called Masada decided that the only logical course was suicide. They debated the issue, and soon the decision was made. Early the following morning, as the Roman troops started to climb the rocky path towards the fortress, the men inside held their wives and children close, then killed them. When only the adult males were left, they lay down near their families, and one of them, chosen in advance, killed his mates one by one. Finally, with the Romans approaching, this last man completed his task by driving a dagger into his chest. Masada had fallen after...
...team-record time of 1:03:51 to break her own week-old mark by one one-hundredth of a second. She then topped teammate Maura Costin's old team record of 2:44 in the 200-yd. individual medley by 11.19 seconds, and finished with a close win in the 200-yd. breaststroke...
...Adele did very well, but there's still room for improvement. She did come pretty close to her best tonight, though," Walsh said...
...reason the party folded had nothing to do with what was going on inside," Winthrop said. "Pure and simple, it was due to what was going on outside. We couldn't even close the doors...