Word: exit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Most recently, the Israeli authorities angered conservative Jewish groups when they slapped down an attempt by Jerusalem's right-wing mayor, Ehud Olmert, to stop construction of a new emergency exit at the Al Aqsa mosque, the third holiest site in Islam that sits on top of the holiest site in Judaism, the Temple Mount. A perennial problem for the keepers of the city's peace is the fact that Jewish prophecy posits the rebuilding of Solomon's Temple as a precondition for the arrival of the Messiah, which would inevitably involve the destruction of Al Aqsa...
...FINISH The end of the stroke, when the blade is about to exit the water...
...through to the German and Anglo-Saxon roots, the transparencies just beyond. The idiom is more immediate, or in an alternate-universe way. How did we settle on "Call me" instead of "Ring me"? "Putting me on" instead of "having me on"? Drugs money, way out--the Latin "exit" just wrenches you ever after! When you are frustrated by a friend, do you say, "it really does me brains in?" Will you next time, instead of "it bugs...
Koocher agreed that Maher and Goodwin will benefit the most from Russell's exit, but added that Galluccio and incumbent Michael A. Sullivan will benefit as well from the bevy of Russell's "old neighborhood" supporters who tend to support incumbents...
...education-reform package, including peer review for teachers, beefed-up reading programs and a mandatory high school exit exam? Done...