Word: containers
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When the bus carrying O'Dell Wills from Mississippi to Chicago in 1950 neared its destination, the sharecroppers' son could hardly contain his excitement. "When we hit the city limits," he recalls, "I said, 'Wow! I'm home free. This is heaven.'" Fifteen years later, Dorothy Tillman, a civil rights worker arriving from Alabama, saw the high-rise apartment buildings where most blacks then lived and had a different reaction. "Look at all them there factories in the middle of the city," she said to her companion. "Those are not factories," he replied. "People live there...
What was all the fighting about? No one was exactly sure. The remote no-man's-land that is claimed by both Peru and Ecuador has long been said to contain gold and uranium. ``The amount of gold there is incredible,'' former Peruvian Foreign Minister Jose de la Puente Rabdill told reporters last week. But no geological studies of the site have been done. Instead, the skirmishing may have had more to do with domestic politics, as both Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori and Ecuadorian President Sixto Duran Ballen used the long-standing border quarrel to bolster their own popularity...
Students' pages that have been constructed on fas since Tuesday contain everything from links to chess servers to a complete collection of Nirvana Iyrics...
...course, neither of those numbers crack either Tammy Butler or Allison Feaster's numbers. If the Eli cannot contain Harvard's explosive offense, Yale may be forced to try to keep pace in a shootout, which would be quite difficult...
...question for Paglia now is where she should go from here. Print can hardly contain her, though she'd be fun as Anna Quindlen's successor on the New York Times op-ed page. TV typecasts her as a furious motormouth, though she could make the cool medium hot again as a talk-show host. Perhaps an answer can be found on the cover of Vamps & Tramps; there is Paglia in her Pussy Galore regalia, striking a doo-wop pose. So maybe it's time for her to hit Broadway and take over the Rizzo role in Grease. Wherever Paglia...